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

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

Mughniyeh was accused of engineering suicide bombings during Lebanon’s civil war and of planning the 1985 hijacking of a TWA airliner in which a U.S.

From Seattle Times