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duet

DEFINITIONS OF: duet

1

n two performers or singers who perform together

Synonyms:
duette, duo
Examples:
Laurel and Hardy
United States slapstick comedy duo who made many films together
Type of:
musical group, musical organisation, musical organization
an organization of musicians who perform together

n a musical composition for two performers

Synonyms:
duette, duo
Type of:
composition, musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music
a musical work that has been created

n (ballet) a dance for two people (usually a ballerina and a danseur noble)

Synonyms:
pas de deux
Type of:
dance, dancing, saltation, terpsichore
taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music

n two items of the same kind

Synonyms:
brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke
Types:
doubleton
(bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player
Type of:
2, II, deuce, two
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number

n a pair who associate with one another

Synonyms:
couple, duo, twosome
Types:
same-sex marriage
two people of the same sex who live together as a family
Type of:
pair
two people considered as a unit
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