Dictionary

duo en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈdu.oʊ/ (Canada, General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈdju.oʊ/ (Canada, General-American)
• /ˈdjuː.əʊ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈd͡ʒuː.əʊ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

PIE word *dwóh₁ From French duo or Italian duo, from Latin duo (“two”), from Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Doublet of two, which was inherited via Proto-Germanic.

Meanings

1. Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially
2. (qualifier:musician group) Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially: ▸ Two musicians who perform music together.
3. Any pair of people.
4. Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur.
5. A meal with two paired components.
   • The duo of pork consisted of a smoked sausage and a shoulder joint.
6. A song in two parts; a duet.
   • I noticed early on, in playing a duo with a violinist, that when a very cheesy synthesized violin sound plays in counterpoint with a real violin, it can quite convincingly seem as if two violins are playing. 2009, Roger T. Dean, The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music:

Forms

Coordinates

trio · quintet · sextet · quartet

Deriveds

superduo · comedy duo · duo euthanasia · dufoil · super-duo · lip duo

Hypernyms

group

Hyponyms

gruesome twosome · duology · dilogy · twins

Meronyms

twin · twindle · twinling

Relateds

trio · quartet · duet · number

Synonyms

twain · duplet · brace · duet · dyad · couplet · couple (pair of two people) · duad · twinsome · duo · doublet · twosome · pair

Translations (49)

cs duo (twosome, especially musicians) · ru дуэ́т (twosome, especially musicians) · mi tokorua (twosome, especially musicians) · se guovttis (twosome, especially musicians) · fi parivaljakko (any pair of two people) · it duo (twosome, especially musicians) · es dúo (twosome, especially musicians) · nb duo (twosome, especially musicians) · ru дво́йка (twosome, especially musicians) · ja 二重奏 (twosome, especially musicians) · cmn 二重唱 (twosome, especially musicians) · ca duet (twosome, especially musicians) · fi duo (twosome, especially musicians) · ja デュオ (twosome, especially musicians) · ja デュエット (twosome, especially musicians) · uk дві́йка (any pair of two people) · mi takirua (twosome, especially musicians) · cmn 二重奏 (twosome, especially musicians) · ca parella (any pair of two people) · ca parell (any pair of two people) · ca duo (twosome, especially musicians) · pt dupla (twosome, especially musicians) · eo duopo (twosome, especially musicians) · tr çift (any pair of two people) · de Duo (twosome, especially musicians) · ru дво́е (twosome, especially musicians) · es equipo de dos (twosome, especially musicians) · it duetto (twosome, especially musicians) · ru па́ра (twosome, especially musicians) · is dúó (twosome, especially musicians) · sv duo (twosome, especially musicians) · hu duó (twosome, especially musicians) · sl duet (twosome, especially musicians) · he צמד (twosome, especially musicians) · nn duo (twosome, especially musicians) · pt par (twosome, especially musicians) · fi pari (any pair of two people) · ja 二重唱 (twosome, especially musicians) · is par (twosome, especially musicians) · nl paar (twosome, especially musicians) · ru дуо (twosome, especially musicians) · bg дво́йка (any pair of two people) · da duo (twosome, especially musicians) · uk дуе́т (twosome, especially musicians) · nl duo (twosome, especially musicians) · es dupla (twosome, especially musicians) · tr ikili (twosome, especially musicians) · fr duo (twosome, especially musicians) · nl koppel (twosome, especially musicians)