twin towers
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3.6
- noun
- /twɪn ˈtaʊərz/
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torres gemelas
- Many visitors came to see the twin towers before their destruction on September 11, 2001.
So I ran out on the street and I looked up and I could see one of the twin towers with smoke coming out of it.
- So I ran out on the street and I looked up and I could see one of the twin towers with smoke coming out of it.
- What would be your rational explanation as to why Alex Jones could actually say they're going to take some planes and put it on the Twin Towers?
- Let's not forget by that time the twin towers have been hit.
- The, the twin towers being destroyed from the top down.
- I, I represented it as the New York, the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
- So I think everyone's focused on like the twin towers, there was over attacks just as big that never happened.
- And I, I took my original flight, but that that flight from Boston to LA was the one that went into the Twin Towers.
Examples
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An absence cries out, like the huge holes in the ground that mark where the twin towers used to stand in lower Manhattan.
Blog text (1) -
I know you had the opportunity to go visit Ground Zero and the site of the Twin Towers with another Marine.
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It's not just watching the Twin Towers on TV.
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So the Port Authority who owned the twin Towers wanted to get out from it.
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The World Trade Center's twin towers were five blocks tall.
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On the 11th of September, 2001, two commercial aircraft flew into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing thousands.
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The twin towers were a symbol of America's financial and business culture.
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On September 11, Americans watched on television, in real time, as the twin towers of the World Trade Center burned and their fellow citizens flung themselves to their deaths from 100 stories up.
Academic text (2002) -
The twin towers, an imposing icon on the New York skyline is reduced to rubble.
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But then two hijacked airliners pierced the Trade Center's twin towers, a third slammed into the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed in rural Pennsylvania.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
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3.4
A pair of tall towers in New York that were destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks
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4.2
Two tall buildings in New York destroyed on September 11, 2001
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'twin' denotes a matching pair and 'towers' denotes tall buildings, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it refers to two matching tall buildings. Although the phrase can refer specifically to the World Trade Center towers, that proper-name reference does not reduce its morphological transparency—the basic sense is immediately derivable and cross-linguistically common.
Etymology
Twin towers is the name for the two matching very tall buildings at the World Trade Center in New York City. People used twin because the buildings matched and towers because they were very tall, so the phrase now brings to mind those two famous 'skyscrapers'.