twice

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adverb

1.
(not comparable)Two times.
You should brush your teeth twice a day.
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. (1947, Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, Section 1)
2.
(not comparable, usually)(usually with "as", of a specified quality) Doubled in quantity, intensity, or degree.

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two timesdouble#Adverbdoubly#Adverb

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twicer twicetbuy nice or buy twicea broken clock is right twice a daybuy the same horse twiceonce a man, twice a boyonce a man, twice a childonce a woman, twice a childa stopped clock is right twice a dayany day of the week and twice on Sundayany day of the week and twice on Sundaysat twiceevery day of the week and twice on Sundayevery day of the week and twice on Sundaysfirst cousin twice removedhit the ball twicelightning does not strike twice in the same placelightning doesn't strike twice in the same placelightning never strikes twicestrike twice

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Nguồn gốc từ

From earlier twise, from Middle English twies, twiȝes, from Old English twīġes (twice), from twīwa, twīġa ("twice"; whence Middle English twie (twice)) + -es. Related to twäie twice, twiges, twies (twice), zwies twice. Equivalent to twi- + -ce. Similarly constructed to the prefixes bis- dis-, borrowed from cognates.