twixt

Examples

• All

• We're going on a year now, I ain't had nothing twixt my nethers... weren't run on batteries.

  Serenity (2005)

• As far, my lord, as will fill up the time twixt this and supper.

  Macbeth (1971)

• As far, my Lord, as will fill up the time 'twixt this and supper, go not my horse the better.

  Macbeth (2015)

• Let this be a second marriage twixt thyself and me.

  Edward II (1991)

• - WHEN I GETS TO KANSAS, I WILL SHOOT JOHN BROWN TWIXT THE EYES.

  Saving Lincoln (2013)

• By Jove himself, it makes the consuls base, and my soul aches to know, when two authorities are up, neither supreme, how soon confusion may enter twixt the gap of both and take the one by the other.

  Coriolanus (2011)

• It's the unbridgeable chasm between his and hers: "Though I don't like such things 'twixt those that love. / Two that don't love can't live together without them. / But two that do can't live together with them."

  Academic text (2008)

• The path ran twixt the two towering mountains, offering a stunning view.

• There is a quiet little café twixt the bustling square and the main road.

Synonyms

B

betwixt

vstwixt

• Archaic

9.9

Between two things or during the time between two events

is the poetic old-fashioned term for the same sense

T

therebetween

vstwixt

• Archaic

9.9

In the space between things mentioned

is an old or formal way to express that same positional idea

Antonyms

O

outside

24 1.0

Near the outer edge or side farther from the center

Surface Forms

Etymology