Loading page
say it: DOO-uhl
duel is a noun and verb meaning "a prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor
any struggle between two skillful opponents (individuals or groups)
fight a duel, as over one's honor or a woman
“In the 19th century, men often dueled over small matters”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for duel come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.