Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A composition for two voices or two instruments.
- noun A group of two singers or two instrumentalists.
- noun A pair.
- intransitive verb To perform a duet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A musical composition either for two voices or for two instruments, or for two performers on one instrument, and either with or without accompaniment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A composition for two performers, whether vocal or instrumental.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music A
musical composition intwo parts , each performed by a singlevoice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble). - noun A
pair orcouple , especially one that is harmonious or elegant. - verb intransitive To
perform a duet. - verb intransitive, zoology, of male and female pairs To
communicate (warnings, mating calls, etc.) throughsong .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (ballet) a dance for two people (usually a ballerina and a danseur noble)
- noun a pair who associate with one another
- noun two items of the same kind
- noun a musical composition for two performers
- noun two performers or singers who perform together
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Billy, when the dismal thing had dragged its way through the final note, sat "down front," crying softly in the semi-darkness while she was waiting for Alice Greggory to "run it through just once more" with a pair of tired-faced, fluffy-skirted fairies who could _not_ learn that a duet meant a _duet_ -- not two solos, independently hurried or retarded as one's fancy for the moment dictated.
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And this added the attitude on this record, where the musicians and definitely with T-Bone's kind of left-the-field production was something that shouldn't even intimate the normal reading of the term duet, because it's just - these are adventures, really.
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I think the term duet kind of intimates established singers who've kind of ran out of ideas and they take songs and they get together and make them into some kind of sugarcoated moment.
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Their duet is intense and amazing - and after almost half a century, it's available again.
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Their duet is intense and amazing - and after almost half a century, it's available again.
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Their duet is intense and amazing and after almost half a century, it's available again.
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Their duet is intense and amazing - and after almost half a century, it's available again.
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Their duet is intense and amazing and after almost half a century, it's available again.
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Their duet is intense and amazing - and after almost half a century, it's available again.
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Their duet is intense and amazing - and after almost half a century, it's available again.
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