duet
noun (a duet, duets); verb (duet, duets, duetted, duetting — rare)
Everyday
- A duet is a piece of music for two singers or two players. tree →
- A duet is a performance by two people together. tree →
- (rare) To duet means to perform a duet. tree →
In the lessons
In music lessons and concerts; in stories, two characters sing together; related: solo (one), trio (three), quartet (four).
Examples
- My sister and I sang a duet at the concert. tree →
- The piano duet had four hands on one keyboard. tree →
- The birds seemed to sing a duet. tree →
- They duetted on a famous love song. tree →
- A duet needs two performers. tree →
- ‘Now they must sing together; what a duet we shall have!’ tree →
Note
Countable. Numbers: solo = 1, duet = 2, trio = 3, quartet = 4. Say it «dew-ET».
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «duet» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «duet» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
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