duet

/duˈɛt/

/duˈɛt/

Other forms: duets

A duet is two people singing or playing musical instruments together. You and your brother might be a popular sidewalk duet with your fiddle-accordion combo.

If you have tickets for a musical duet, you'll be watching and listening to two performers. You can also call the composition that's written for the two of them a duet, since it has parts for two instruments. Two dancers can also perform a duet, a dance especially choreographed for a couple. Duet stems from the Italian duetto, "musical composition for two voices," from duo, or "two."

Definitions of duet

1. noun

   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
2. noun

   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
3. noun

   (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
4. noun

   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
5. noun

   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