An old-fashioned or poetic word meaning 'between,' often used in literature or historical contexts.
Contraction of 'betwixt,' which comes from Old English 'be-' (by) + 'tweon' (two), literally 'by two' or 'among two things.' Used extensively in Middle and Early Modern English.
'Twixt is a contraction so old that people stopped using it centuries ago, yet it lives on in Shakespeare quotations and historical novels, showing how language preserves vanished ways of speaking.
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