name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
duet
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/djuˈɛt/
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/duˈɛt/
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rhymes with -ɛt
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CMU ARPABET: D UW0 EH1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: D Y UW0 EH1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
Meaning 3
A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
Meaning 4
A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 5
To perform a duet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- 1822, Lord Byron, Letter to Mr. Moore, Pisa, July 12, 1822, in The Letters of George Gordon Byron, edited by Mathilde Blind, London: Walter Scott, 1887, p. 277, https://books.google.ca/books?id=-DF4Zs_eezUC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false When you can spare time from duetting, coquetting, and claretting with your Hibernians of both sexes, let me have a line from you.
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verb
Meaning 6
To communicate (warnings, mating calls, etc.) through song.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
Examples
- 1975, Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Belknap Press, p. 223, Duetting species are typically monogamous.
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verb
Meaning 7
To perform (sing, play, etc.) as a duet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 8
(of two people) To say at the same time, to chorus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- 1884, Anonymous, A Speculation, Denver: D. M. Richards, Chapter 12, p. 50, https://books.google.ca/books?id=RsFQAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false “A bear!” exclaimed the Major, jumping up and coming forward. “A bear!” dueted the Doctor and Right Rev., pressing hastily to the front.
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noun
Meaning 9
(ballet) a dance for two people (usually a ballerina and a danseur noble)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pas de deux
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dancing, dance, terpsichore, saltation
noun
Meaning 10
a musical composition for two performers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: duette, duo
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: musical composition, opus, composition, piece, piece of music
noun
Meaning 11
a pair who associate with one another
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the engaged couple
- an inseparable twosome
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: couple, twosome, duo
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pair
Narrower terms: same-sex marriage
noun
Meaning 12
two performers or singers who perform together
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: duette, duo
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: musical organization, musical organisation, musical group
Narrower terms: Laurel and Hardy
noun
Meaning 13
two items of the same kind
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, dyad, duad
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: two, 2, II, deuce
Narrower terms: doubleton
History
Etymology
PIE word *dwóh1 From Italian duetto (“short musical composition for two voices”), diminutive of due (“two”).
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: дуе́т (duét) — a musical composition for two performers
- Catalan: duo — a musical composition for two performers
- Catalan: duet — a musical composition for two performers
- Chinese Mandarin: 二重唱 (èrchóngchàng) — a musical composition for two performers
- Chinese Mandarin: 二重奏 (èrchóngzòu) — a musical composition for two performers
- Dutch: duet — a musical composition for two performers
- Dutch: duo — a musical composition for two performers
- French: duo — a musical composition for two performers
- French: duetto — a musical composition for two performers
- German: Duett — a musical composition for two performers
- Greek: ντουέτο (ntouéto) — a musical composition for two performers
- Hungarian: duett — a musical composition for two performers
- Hungarian: duó — a musical composition for two performers
- Hungarian: kettős — a musical composition for two performers
- Italian: duetto — a musical composition for two performers
- Italian: duo — a musical composition for two performers
- Japanese: 二重唱 (nijūshō) — a musical composition for two performers
- Japanese: 二重奏 (nijūsō) — a musical composition for two performers
- Japanese: デュエット (dyuetto) — a musical composition for two performers
- Japanese: デュオ (dyuo) — a musical composition for two performers
- Māori: waiata tōrua — a musical composition for two performers
- Polish: duet — a musical composition for two performers
- Polish: duo — a musical composition for two performers
- Portuguese: dueto — a musical composition for two performers
- Russian: дуэ́т (duét) — a musical composition for two performers
- Russian: дво́йка (dvójka) — a musical composition for two performers
- Russian: дво́е (dvóje) — a musical composition for two performers
- Scottish Gaelic: òran-càraid — a musical composition for two performers
- Serbo-Croatian: dvopev — a musical composition for two performers
- Slovene: duet — a musical composition for two performers
- Spanish: dúo — a musical composition for two performers
- Spanish: dueto — a musical composition for two performers
- Swedish: duett — a musical composition for two performers
- Turkish: düet — a musical composition for two performers
- Welsh: deuawd — a musical composition for two performers