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# duet

«duet» in Mova's school dictionary: **a piece of music for two singers or two players** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a duet, duets); verb (duet, duets, duetted, duetting — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A duet is a piece of music for two singers or two players. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duet/#m1)

2) A duet is a performance by two people together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duet/#m2)

3) (rare) To duet means to perform a duet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duet/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In music lessons and concerts; in stories, two characters sing together; related: solo (one), trio (three), quartet (four).

### examples

- My sister and I sang a duet at the concert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duet/#x1)
- The piano duet had four hands on one keyboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duet/#x2)
- The birds seemed to sing a duet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duet/#x3)
- They duetted on a famous love song. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duet/#x4)
- A duet needs two performers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duet/#x5)
- ‘Now they must sing together; what a duet we shall have!’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duet/#x6)

### note

Countable. Numbers: solo = 1, duet = 2, trio = 3, quartet = 4. Say it «dew-ET».

### In the corpora

- [Gibbons are small apes that sing loud duets, male and female together, heard about a kilometre away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «duet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.