Duet

//djuˈɛt// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).
  2. 2
    (ballet) a dance for two people (usually a ballerina and a danseur noble) wordnet
  3. 3
    A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
  4. 4
    a musical composition for two performers wordnet
  5. 5
    A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant.

    "The fare is Caribbean with an Asian touch — millefeuille of sun-dried tomato, Paris mushrooms and chargrilled local asparagus followed by a duet of chicken and shrimp..."

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  1. 6
    a pair who associate with one another wordnet
  2. 7
    two performers or singers who perform together wordnet
  3. 8
    two items of the same kind wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To perform a duet. intransitive

    "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."

  2. 2
    To communicate (warnings, mating calls, etc.) through song. intransitive

    "1975, Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Belknap Press, p. 223, Duetting species are typically monogamous."

  3. 3
    To perform (sing, play, etc.) as a duet. transitive

    "Peena and Queena are duetting a giggle-for-giggle […]"

  4. 4
    (of two people) To say at the same time, to chorus. transitive

    "“My dear papa!” duetted the girls; but there was something in the husband and father's face, that told the three ladies it would be worse than useless to raise that question at present."

Etymology

Etymology 1

PIE word *dwóh₁ From Italian duetto (“short musical composition for two voices”), diminutive of due (“two”).

Etymology 2

PIE word *dwóh₁ From Italian duetto (“short musical composition for two voices”), diminutive of due (“two”).

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