twa

¹

[ twah, twaw ]

noun

, Scot.

1. two.

Twa

²

[ twah ]

noun

, plural Twas, (especially collectively) Twa.

1. a member of a Pygmy people of Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

twa

/ twɔː; twe /

noun

1. a Scot word for two

Example Sentences

In July 1992, Saafir was among those injured in the crash of TWA Flight 843 after an aborted takeoff, beginning a decades-long series of spine problems that were not known to his fans for years.

From Los Angeles Times

The Tutsis account for 14% and the Twa just 1% of Rwanda’s 14 million people.

From Seattle Times

MCR Hotels owns about 150 hotels, including the New Yorker Hotel and the modernist TWA Hotel at New York’s JFK airport.

From Seattle Times

MCR owns several notable hotels, including the TWA Hotel, which occupies the Eero Saarinen-designed former TWA terminal at Kennedy Airport, and the High Line Hotel in New York City, which was formerly a dormitory for the General Theological Seminary.

From New York Times

“We see many parallels between the TWA Hotel and the BT Tower,” Mr. Morse said.

From New York Times