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Collocations for couple - noun

ADJECTIVE

adorable (AmE), attractive, beautiful, cute (AmE), good-looking, great, handsome, lovely
happy, loving, perfect, romantic
elderly, middle-aged, old, retired, young
heterosexual
gay, homosexual, lesbian, same-sex
engaged, honeymoon, married, newly married, newly-wed
The hotel was full of honeymoon couples.
cohabiting, unmarried
interracial (AmE)
childless, infertile
childless couples seeking to adopt

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VERB + couple

make
They make a beautiful couple.

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PHRASES

the happy couple (= the two people getting married)
We stood and drank a toast to the happy couple.

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