Meanings
nounduad (plural duads)
plural duads
- A pair or couple.
[T]hey have invented idols, a manifest advance toward that polytheism and pantheism which lead through a triad and duad of deities to monotheism, the finial of the spiritual edifice.
1876, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “The Minor Tribes and the Mpongwe”, in Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo. […], part I (The Gaboon River and Gorilla Land), London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, […], →OCLC, page 96Synonyms: dyad, twosome, brace, couple, couplet, doublet, duet, duo
- astrologyDwadasamsa.
- mathematicsAn unordered pair.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA pair or couple.
More synonyms by meaning
nountwo items of the same kind
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APA
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