duo
/ˈdjuː.əʊ/US/ˈdu.oʊ/
duo noun: two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially.
Noun
duo (plural duos)
- Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially
- Two musicians who perform music together.
- Any pair of people.
- Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur.
- A meal with two paired components.
- The duo of pork consisted of a smoked sausage and a shoulder joint.
- 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.2009, Roger T. Dean, The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music
Proper noun capitalized: Duo
Duo
duo meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Telugu and Kannada
duo in Hindi
- duo, pair, couple
- युगल yugal
duo in Urdu
- جوڑا
duo in Telugu
- ద్వయం
duo in Kannada
- ಎಣೆ, ಜೋಡಿ, ಜೋಡಿ ಕಲಾವಿದರು, ಕಲೆಗಾರರ ಜೋಡಿ
More languagesFewer languages
- duo in Punjabi
- جوڑا joṛā, ਜੋੜਾ joṛā
Examples of duo in a sentence
- But as a duo, it is, as you might say, "totes ridic!"” “(gasps) I would say that.”
- Tucker and Linda are one of the Internet’s favourite doggo-hooman duo.
- This Kiss graphic tee x fishnet top moment was very UwU of the duo.
Synonyms of duo
Forms of duo
| plural | duos |
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Origin of duo
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.
Words formed from duo
Phrases with duo
Words that rhyme with duo
Questions about duo
- What does duo mean?
- Duo means two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially.
- What is duo in Hindi?
- Duo in Hindi is युगल (yugal). See Duo meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is duo?
- Duo can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce duo?
- Duo is pronounced /ˈdjuː.əʊ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of duo?
- The plural of duo is duos.
Words near duo in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: duo (page history and authors); Duo (page history and authors); युगल (Hindi) (page history and authors); duo (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); duo (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); duo (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); جوڑا (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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