Duet

Quick meaning: Duet is a noun meaning (music) A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).

Meaning

(music) A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).

More Meanings

1. (music) A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
2. A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant.
3. (intransitive) To perform a duet.
4. (intransitive, zoology, of pairs of animals) To communicate (warnings, mating calls, etc.) through song.
5. (transitive) To perform (sing, play, etc.) as a duet.
6. (transitive) (of two people) To say at the same time, to chorus.

Example Sentences

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

After the Lord's Prayer the Missionaries duetted a hymn while the children stared at me.

He was about as accordantly coupled with Dr. Middleton in discourse as a drum duetting with a bass-viol […]

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

Word Forms

• duets
• duetting
• dueting
• duetted
• dueted

Synonyms for duet

Depending on context, synonyms include duo, couple, pair, twosome, span, yoke.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include duo, distich, couplet, pair, twosome, duad.

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