DUO (dui)

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Irregular inflected form: dui   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does duo mean? 

• DUO (noun)
  The noun DUO has 4 senses:

1. two items of the same kind

2. two performers or singers who perform together

3. a pair who associate with one another

4. a musical composition for two performers

  Familiarity information: DUO used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Two items of the same kind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

brace; couple; couplet; distich; duad; duet; duo; dyad; pair; span; twain; twosome; yoke

Hypernyms ("duo" is a kind of...):

2; deuce; II; two (the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number)

Meronyms (parts of "duo"):

fellow; mate (one of a pair)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "duo"):

doubleton ((bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Two performers or singers who perform together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

duet; duette; duo

Hypernyms ("duo" is a kind of...):

musical group; musical organisation; musical organization (an organization of musicians who perform together)

Instance hyponyms:

Laurel and Hardy (United States slapstick comedy duo who made many films together)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A pair who associate with one another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

couple; duet; duo; twosome

Context example:

an inseparable twosome

Hypernyms ("duo" is a kind of...):

pair (two people considered as a unit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "duo"):

same-sex marriage (two people of the same sex who live together as a family)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A musical composition for two performers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

duet; duette; duo

Hypernyms ("duo" is a kind of...):

composition; musical composition; opus; piece; piece of music (a musical work that has been created)

Meronyms (parts of "duo"):

primo (the principal part of a duet (especially a piano duet))

secondo (the second or lower part of a duet (especially a piano duet))

 Context examples 

The prize was shared between James Peebles and the duo of Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor.

(Swedish academy announces 2019 Nobel Prize winners in physics, Wikinews)

The planet orbits roughly 300 million miles from the stellar duo, about the distance from the asteroid belt to our sun.

(Hubble Finds Planet Orbiting Pair of Stars, NASA)