Duet
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duet¹
- /djuˈɛt/
- /duˈɛt/
Rhymes with -ɛt
Where it comes from
PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Italian duetto (“short musical composition for two voices”), diminutive of due (“two”).
noun duets
- A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).
- A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
- A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant. The fare is Caribbean with an Asian touch — millefeuille of sun-dried tomato, Paris mushrooms and chargrilled local asparagus followed by a duet of chicken and shrimp...
verb duets · duetting · dueting · duetted · dueted
- To perform a duet. 1822, Lord Byron, Letter to Mr. Moore, Pisa, July 12, 1822, in The Letters of George Gordon Byron, edited by Mathilde Blind, London: Walter Scott, 1887, p. 277, https://books.google.ca/books?id=-DF4Zs_eezUC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false When you can spare time from duetting, coquetting, an
- To communicate (warnings, mating calls, etc.) through song. 1975, Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Belknap Press, p. 223, Duetting species are typically monogamous.
- To perform (sing, play, etc.) as a duet. Peena and Queena are duetting a giggle-for-giggle […]
- (of two people) To say at the same time, to chorus. “My dear papa!” duetted the girls; but there was something in the husband and father's face, that told the three ladies it would be worse than useless to raise that question at present.
Duet²
proper noun Duets
- A surname.
