duet

«duet» in Mova's school dictionary: a piece of music for two singers or two players — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a duet, duets); verb (duet, duets, duetted, duetting — rare)

meaning for a pupil

1) A duet is a piece of music for two singers or two players. tree →

2) A duet is a performance by two people together. tree →

3) (rare) To duet means to perform a duet. tree →

sense 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».

In the corpora

• Gibbons are small apes that sing loud duets, male and female together, heard about a kilometre away.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «duet» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.