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Duo   /dˈuoʊ/   Listen
Duo

noun
(pl. duos, dui)
1.
Two items of the same kind.  Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke.
2.
Two performers or singers who perform together.  Synonyms: duet, duette.
3.
A pair who associate with one another.  Synonyms: couple, duet, twosome.  "An inseparable twosome"
4.
A musical composition for two performers.  Synonyms: duet, duette.






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"Duo" Quotes from Famous Books



... word from the Greek [Greek: margaritaes], signifying a pearl. The following account by an eye-witness will not be uninteresting: "Especially it yieldeth store of pearls, those gems which the Latin writers call Uniones, because nulli duo reperiuntur discreti, they always are found to grow in couples. In this Island there are many rich Merchants who have thirty, forty, fifty Blackmore slaves only to fish out of the sea about the rocks these ...
— Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, Vol. 1 • Samuel de Champlain

... "Ubi tres medici, duo athei, you know, Doctor. Your profession has always had the credit of being lax in doctrine,—though pretty stringent in practice, ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 37, November, 1860 • Various

... IX, 8, 14: "quia si vel in uno homine posset contingere, ut illa duo coniungerentur, scil. carere speciali privilegio et nihilominus cavere omne peccatum veniale per totam vitam, propositio Concilii esset simpliciter falsa; nam est absoluta et universalis, ad cuius falsitatem satis est quod in ...
— Grace, Actual and Habitual • Joseph Pohle

... duo magna, Hebraic, de astrologicis judiciis.— Alchimia Salomonis. papyro, f. ...
— The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee - And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts • John Dee

... genitalia corpora mundus Continet; ex illis duo sunt onerosa, suoque Pondere in inferius, tellus atque unda, feruntur, Et totidem gravitate carent, nulloque premente Alta petunt, ...
— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various


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