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duet
[ doo-et, dyoo- ]
noun
- a musical composition for two voices or instruments.
duet
/ djuːˈɛt /
noun
- Also called (esp for instrumental compositions)duo a musical composition for two performers or voices
- an action or activity performed by a pair of closely connected individuals
verb
- intr to perform a duet
Derived Forms
- duˈettist, noun
Other Words From
- du·ettist noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of duet1
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Example Sentences
The pictures resurfaced again this month after Combs released a duet with Billy Strings called “The Great Divide” that urges unity.
Soon after, Evans posted his performance of “Soon May the Wellerman Come,” which promptly went viral and set off a flood of duets, remixes, and copies.
To understand someone else, you need to both capture your own thoughts as well as gauge the intention of the other person, whether you’re cooking a meal together, playing a duet, or knowing when to take turns in conversation.
For example, our group has studied female song and male-female duets in Venezuelan troupials, a tropical species that sings year-round to defend territories.
Researchers began to study how female birds use their songs, how females learn songs, and why females in some species join their mates to sing precisely coordinated duets.
Zach Braff and Donald Faison The Scrubs stars reunited to sing this holiday duet.
As has been well-trodden at this point, the lyrics to this classic duet are quite concerning.
The cartoons zing, whirr, and reverberate harmonically, making each entry a sort of duet.
And then my duet with Kathryn, and my first duet with Valerie, the contemporary that Travis Wall choreographed.
Even Prince himself turns up for a duet on The Electric Lady.
For some moments the girls talked a rapid duet, then Isabel turned suddenly and beckoned.
Once he learnt, with his aunt, the exceedingly florid duet in Semiramide, and sang the soprano part admirably.
Life is packed with little unheard of dramas of precisely the same sort—the eternal duet of sex; nothing else keeps it going.
As Chopin's playing was equally sympathetic to Slavik, they formed the project of writing a duet for violin and piano.
For on that day he played with his fellow-pupil Tellefsen, at a concert given by the latter in Paris, a duet of Schumann's.
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