Duo meaning

do͝o'ō, dyo͝o'ō
A duet, especially two performers singing or playing together.
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Two people or two things in close association.

A duo of negotiators.

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Two.

Duopsony.

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The two performers of a duet, or any two musicians playing together.
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A pair; couple.
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Two, double.

Duologue.

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An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
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Origin of duo

  • < L duo, two
    From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition
  • Latin from duo two dwo- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Italian from Latin two dwo- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Duo Sentence Examples

  • Apparently the duo was considered part of the family.

  • We need mention only the chief of them - the Collectio Anselmo dedicata, by an unknown author of the end of the 9th century; the Libri duo de synodalibus causis et disciplinis ecclesiasticis, 3 compiled about 906 by Regino, abbot of Pram, and dedicated to Hatto of Mainz, relatively a very original treatise; the enormous compilation surchard.

  • have the usual meaning (Duo = u l - uo, L 2 uo = Du 1 - Auo, .

  • (1560); Poetarum veterum ecclesiasticorum opera Christiana (1562); De Re Poetica libri septem (1565); Rerum Misnicarum libri septem (1569); (posthumous) Originu7n illustrissimae stirpis Saxonicae libri septem (1597); Rerum Germaniae magnae et Saxoniae universae memorab'lium mirabiliumque volumina duo (1609).

  • When in 311 B.C. the people took the appointment of these lieutenants into their own hands the title was changed from "praefects" to duo viri navales, or "two naval men"; but under the empire the admirals went by their old name of praefects.

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