Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A dialogue or conversation between two persons.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dialogue or piece spoken by two persons.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A conversation between two persons; dialogue.
- noun A dramatic performance or piece in the form of a dialogue limited to two speakers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a part of the script in which the speaking roles are limited to two actors
- noun a conversation between two persons
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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- Egypt dialogue on democratization is really a "duologue" of two independent monologues, stemming from two very different political cultures, in which neither side is clearly listening to the other.
Spero News 2009
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Not until the 1960s did the critics start to figure out that "Private Lives," his masterpiece, was something more than in his own ironically self-deprecating words "a reasonably well-constructed duologue for two experienced performers, with a couple of extra puppets thrown in to assist the plot and to provide contrast."
When Coward's Amanda Turns Cougar Terry Teachout 2011
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*** Speaking of tough nuts, the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival has imported Dublin's Gate Theatre revival of "Krapp's Last Tape," Samuel Beckett's hour-long 1958 "duologue" for an angry old writer John Hurt, made up to look like Beckett himself who listens to a tape recording of himself when young and can't stand what he hears.
The End Of the Line Terry Teachout 2011
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“I have to leave on a personal trip to Ethiopia, but I wanted to have this conversation now rather than later,” he says, then he turns off his phone, restores it in his pocket and lets me know that he is ready for our duologue.
Marcus Samuelsson: An Ethiopian, From Sweden In Harlem « 2009
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Pretty amazing how much the dolls seemed to say without a single word of duologue.
No Fat Clips!!! : Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free 2008
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The second is also a duologue, but of a rather different kind, between two characters, a Reader and a Listener.
On interacting with Beckett DC 2007
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The second is also a duologue, but of a rather different kind, between two characters, a Reader and a Listener.
Archive 2007-11-01 DC 2007
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The first is a duologue in which two men, 'A' and 'B', review the life of 'C', who is standing motionless, with his back to the audience, ready to jump out of the window.
Archive 2007-11-01 DC 2007
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The first is a duologue in which two men, 'A' and 'B', review the life of 'C', who is standing motionless, with his back to the audience, ready to jump out of the window.
On interacting with Beckett DC 2007
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The hollow spiral, as he knew from old experience, would bring down to his ears the slightest sound from above; and it now revealed to him the words of a duologue in progress at the summit of the tower.
Two on a Tower 2006
bilby commented on the word duologue
"They lunched slowly and meditatively, with mute intervals between rushes of talk; for, the spell once broken, they had much to say, and yet moments when saying became the mere accompaniment to long duologues of silence."
- Edith Wharton, 'The Age of Innocence'.
September 19, 2009