Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.
He's my double cousin as my mother's sister married my father's brother.
Twice over; twofold; doubly.
February 7 1736, Jonathan Swift, letter to Alexander Pope I was double their age.
Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes
Saddam Hussein was rumored to have many doubles.
A surname.
PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English double, from Old French doble, double, from Latin duplus (“twofold”). Doublet of doppio and duple.
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Two together; two at a time.
When I met the twins, I thought I was seeing double.
Into two halves or sections.
The old man was bent double under his heavy burden.
To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.
Our earnings have doubled in the last year.
To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
Thus re-inforc’d, againſt the adverſe Fleet / Still doubling ours, brave Rupert leads the way.