du·et

(do͞o-ĕt′, dyo͞o-)

1. Music

a. A composition for two voices or two instruments.

b. A group of two singers or two instrumentalists.

2. A pair.

intr.v. du·et·ted, du·et·ting, du·ets

To perform a duet.

[Italian duetto, diminutive of duo, from Latin, two; see dwo- in Indo-European roots.]

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duet

(djuːˈɛt)

1. (Music, other) Also called (esp for instrumental compositions): duo a musical composition for two performers or voices

2. an action or activity performed by a pair of closely connected individuals

vb, duets, duetting or duetted

(Music, other) (intr) to perform a duet

[C18: from Italian duetto a little duet, from duo duet, from Latin: two]

duˈettist n

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du•et

(duˈɛt, dyu-)

n., v. -et•ted, -et•ting. n.

1. a musical composition for two voices or instruments.

v.i.

2. to perform a duet.

[1730–40; earlier duett < Italian duetto=du(o) duet + -etto -et]

Duet

two or more birds; a musical arrangement for two performers, hence, the collective term for the performers; two matching items.

Examples: duet of doves; of gowns [same colour], 1890; of turtles, 1486.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	duet - two items of the same kind couplet, distich, duad, duo, dyad, twain, twosome, brace, pair, span, yoke, couple fellow, mate - one of a pair; "he lost the mate to his shoe"; "one eye was blue but its fellow was brown" 2, II, two, deuce - the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number doubleton - (bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player
	2.	duet - two performers or singers who perform together duette, duo musical group, musical organisation, musical organization - an organization of musicians who perform together
	3.	duet - a pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable twosome" couple, twosome, duo pair - two people considered as a unit same-sex marriage - two people of the same sex who live together as a family; "the legal status of same-sex marriages has been hotly debated"
	4.	duet - a musical composition for two performers duette, duo primo - the principal part of a duet (especially a piano duet) secondo - the second or lower part of a duet (especially a piano duet) musical composition, opus, piece of music, composition, piece - a musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements"
	5.	duet - (ballet) a dance for two people (usually a ballerina and a danseur noble) pas de deux dancing, terpsichore, dance, saltation - taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music adagio - a slow section of a pas de deux requiring great skill and strength by the dancers ballet, concert dance - a theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers

duet

noun

Two items of the same kind together:

brace, couple, couplet, doublet, duo, match, pair, two, twosome, yoke.

Translations

ثُنائي

dueto

duetduo

Duett

duo duetto

duettduókettős

dúett, tvísöngur; tvíleikur

duetto duo

duetas

duets

duet duo

duett

дуэт

dueto

duet

düet

二重唱二重奏

duet

[djuːˈet] N (= players, composition) → dúo m
to sing/play a duet → cantar/tocar a dúo

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

duet

[djuːˈɛt] n → duo m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

duet

n → Duo nt; (for voices) → Duett nt; violin duet → Geigenduo nt

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duet

[djuːˈɛt] n → duetto
to sing/play a duet → cantare/suonare un duetto
a violin/piano duet (performance) → un duetto al violino/al piano (composition) → un duetto per violino/per piano

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

duet

(djuˈet) noun

a musical piece for two singers or players. a piano duet.

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"I thought perhaps you might have leisure to try over a duet with me," he said, turning to Agatha.

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Two young girls, the Farival twins, were playing a duet from "Zampa" upon the piano.

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Two girls, on the bills as sisters, came forth and sang a duet that is heard occasionally at concerts given under church auspices.

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And now both together attacked our heroe, whose blows did not retain that force with which they had fallen at first, so weakened was he by his combat with Thwackum; for though the pedagogue chose rather to play solos on the human instrument, and had been lately used to those only, yet he still retained enough of his antient knowledge to perform his part very well in a duet .

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They could not but hold her cheap on finding that she had but two sashes, and had never learned French; and when they perceived her to be little struck with the duet they were so good as to play, they could do no more than make her a generous present of some of their least valued toys, and leave her to herself, while they adjourned to whatever might be the favourite holiday sport of the moment, making artificial flowers or wasting gold paper.

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"Oh no, I shall not respect an Adam who drags the tempo , as you will," said Lucy, beginning to play the duet.

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While the charmingly sincere young man pleaded with her-- accompanied by the orchestra in the old `Traviata' duet,

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"Why, d'ye know, when I'm playin' an' he's singin', it's a regular duet of what the sky-pilots 'd call religion an' knowin' God.

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We were to have played a duet together--three duets, I believe.

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In Germany they always hear one thing at an opera which has never yet been heard in America, perhaps--I mean the closing strain of a fine solo or duet. We always smash into it with an earthquake of applause.

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A girl has to be in a sunnier mood than she was to bear up without wincing under the infliction of a duet consisting of the Rock of Ages and Waiting for the Robert E.

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When Miggs finished her solo, her mistress struck in again, and the two together performed a duet to the same purpose; the burden being, that Mrs Varden was persecuted perfection, and Mr Varden, as the representative of mankind in that apartment, a creature of vicious and brutal habits, utterly insensible to the blessings he enjoyed.

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