duo
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 4
- Words With Friends
- 5
- Letters
- 3
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Definition of duo
7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially
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noun
- Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially
- Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially:
- Any pair of people.
- Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur.
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A meal with two paired components.
“The duo of pork consisted of a smoked sausage and a shoulder joint.”
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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.”
name
- An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
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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.
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