duo

noun

/ˈdjuː.əʊ/UK/ˈdu.oʊ/CA

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.

derived from *dwóh₁✻
derived from *duō✻
derived from duo — “two”
borrowed from duo
borrowed from duo

Definitions

Two people who work or collaborate together as partners
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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1. 4
  A meal with two paired components.
  - The duo of pork consisted of a smoked sausage and a shoulder joint.
2. 5
  A song in two parts
  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.
3. An unincorporated community in West Virginia.

The neighborhood

synonymcouplepair of two people
synonympair
synonymtwosome
synonymbrace
synonymcouplet
synonymdoublet
synonymduad
synonymduet
synonymduo
synonymduplet
synonymdyad
synonymtwain
neighborduet
neighbortrio
neighborquartet
neighbornumber
neighborgroup
neighbordilogy
neighborgruesome twosome
neighborduology
neighbortwins

Derived

comedy duo, dufoil, duo euthanasia, lip duo, super-duo

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA