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.
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
interracial (AmE)
childless, infertile
childless couples seeking to adopt
PHRASES
the happy couple
(= the two people getting married)
We stood and drank a toast to the happy couple.
We stood and drank a toast to the happy couple.