Dictionary

Siamese twin en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Chang and Eng Bunker, conjoined twins from Siam (modern Thailand), were known as the "Siamese twins".

Meanings

1. A conjoined twin; one of two people physically joined together.
   • The village sign on the green depicts the Biddenden Maids, the Siamese twins Elizabeth and Mary Chulkhurst, who were born about 1135, joined at the hip and shoulder. They lived until the age of 34 when they died within a few hours of each other. 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 58:
   • the two stood together; the old miser leaning against the herb-doctor with something of that air of trustful fraternity with which, when standing, the less strong of the Siamese twins habitually leans against the other. 1857, Herman Melville, chapter XXI, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade:
2. (broadly) One of two people who are extraordinarily close, or always found together.
   • Didn't you hear what he said about your Lesta and the Prince — that they were as thick as butter — regular Siamese twins and you couldn't separate 'em?
3. Either of a pair of words that occur together as an idiomatic expression or collocation, as in "hammer and sickle", "short and sweet", or "spick and span".

Forms

Deriveds

Siamese Twins Galaxies · Siamese Twin Galaxies · Siamese Twins Galaxy · Siamese Twin Galaxy · Siamese Twins

Translations (33)

tr Siyam ikizi (conjoined twin) · de siamesischer Zwilling (conjoined twin) · es siamés (conjoined twin) · ko 샴쌍둥이 (conjoined twin) · tr yapışık ikiz (conjoined twin) · be сія́мскае блізьня́ (conjoined twin) · nl Siamese tweeling (conjoined twin) · fr frère siamois (conjoined twin) · nb siamesisk tvilling (conjoined twin) · pl bliźnię syjamskie (conjoined twin) · th แฝดสยาม (conjoined twin) · ja シャム双生児 (conjoined twin) · fr sœur siamoise (conjoined twin) · pt gêmeo siamês (conjoined twin) · be сія́мскае блізнё (conjoined twin) · ms kembar Siam (conjoined twin) · ro geamăn siamez (conjoined twin) · ro geamănă siameză (conjoined twin) · eo siama ĝemelo (conjoined twin) · nn siamesisk tvilling (conjoined twin) · mn сиамын ихэр (conjoined twin) · pt gémeo siamês (conjoined twin) · tr Siyamlı ikiz (conjoined twin) · sv siamesisk tvilling (conjoined twin) · kmr cêwiyên siyamî (conjoined twin) · be сія́мскае блізьнё (conjoined twin) · ru сиа́мский близне́ц (conjoined twin) · hu sziámi iker (conjoined twin) · da siamesisk tvilling (conjoined twin) · fi siamilainen kaksonen (conjoined twin) · be сія́мскае блізня́ (conjoined twin) · id kembar siam (conjoined twin) · kmr hevalcêmkên pêkve (conjoined twin)