Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A dialogue or conversation between two persons: "a reasonably well-constructed duologue for two experienced performers” ( Noel Coward).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A dialogue or piece spoken by two persons.
Wiktionary
- n. A conversation between two persons; dialogue.
- n. A dramatic performance or piece in the form of dialogue limited to two speakers.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a part of the script in which the speaking roles are limited to two actors
- n. a conversation between two persons
Etymologies
- duo + (mono)logue. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“- Egypt dialogue on democratization is really a "duologue" of two independent monologues, stemming from two very different political cultures, in which neither side is clearly listening to the other.”
“*** Speaking of tough nuts, the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival has imported Dublin's Gate Theatre revival of "Krapp's Last Tape," Samuel Beckett's hour-long 1958 "duologue" for an angry old writer John Hurt, made up to look like Beckett himself who listens to a tape recording of himself when young and can't stand what he hears.”
“Not until the 1960s did the critics start to figure out that "Private Lives," his masterpiece, was something more than in his own ironically self-deprecating words "a reasonably well-constructed duologue for two experienced performers, with a couple of extra puppets thrown in to assist the plot and to provide contrast.”
““I have to leave on a personal trip to Ethiopia, but I wanted to have this conversation now rather than later,” he says, then he turns off his phone, restores it in his pocket and lets me know that he is ready for our duologue.”
“Pretty amazing how much the dolls seemed to say without a single word of duologue.”
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“The first is a duologue in which two men, 'A' and 'B', review the life of 'C', who is standing motionless, with his back to the audience, ready to jump out of the window.”
“The second is also a duologue, but of a rather different kind, between two characters, a Reader and a Listener.”
“The hollow spiral, as he knew from old experience, would bring down to his ears the slightest sound from above; and it now revealed to him the words of a duologue in progress at the summit of the tower.”
“Swithin, in the room overhead, had suspended his calculations, for the duologue interested him.”
“And for the rest there was toil and struggle, toil and struggle with a failing heart and dwindling courage, to sustain that dreary duologue.”
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bilby "They lunched slowly and meditatively, with mute intervals between rushes of talk; for, the spell once broken, they had much to say, and yet moments when saying became the mere accompaniment to long duologues of silence."
- Edith Wharton, 'The Age of Innocence'. Sep 19, 2009