Duel

Noun

 * 1) Combat between two persons, often over a matter of honor.
 * 2) A struggle between two contending persons, groups or ideas.

Verb

 * 1) To engage in a duel.

Related terms

 * duellist
 * duello

Adjectives for Duel
single-handed; mortal; formidable; celebrated; straight-out; valiant; political; judicial; desperate; inevitable; fatal; violent; informal; impromptu; bloody; spectacular; protracted; farcical; grudging; grim; solemn ; honor-prompted.

Verbs for Duel
arrange—; challenge to—; demand—; enter—; excuse from—; fight—; practise for—; stab in—; succumb in—; vanquish in—; witness—; —acquits; —decides; —dis¬charges; —ensues; —entrances; —scars; —settles ; —tests.

Thesaurus
affair of honor, battle, box, brawl, broil, buck, clash, close, collide, combat, come to blows, contend, contest, cut and thrust, dispute, exchange blows, fence, feud, fight, fight a duel, give and take, give satisfaction, grapple, grapple with, jostle, joust, mix it up, monomachy, oppose, quarrel, rassle, repel, riot, run a tilt, satisfaction, scramble, scuffle, single combat, skirmish, spar, strive, struggle, thrust and parry, tilt, tourney, traverse, tussle, wage war, war, withstand, wrestle

Etymology
From duellum:, under influence from  duo:, from  duellum: (whence  bellum:) <.

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: dual
 * Homophones: dual
 * Homophones: dual
 * Homophones: dual

Noun

 * Bulgarian: дуел
 * Catalan: duel
 * Danish:, tvekamp
 * Dutch:, tweegevecht
 * Esperanto: duelo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, singolar tenzone
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: duelo
 * Russian: дуэль
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish: duelo
 * Swedish: duell, tvekamp


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: duel
 * Danish:, tvekamp
 * Dutch:, tweekamp
 * Esperanto: duelo
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German: ,
 * Greek: διαμάχη
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: duelo
 * Spanish: duelo
 * Swedish: duell, tvekamp


 * : duello
 * : 決闘 (けっとう, kettou), デュエル
 * : 決闘 (けっとう, kettou), デュエル


 * : duelo (1,2)
 * : duelo (1,2)

Verb

 * Bulgarian: дуелирам се
 * Catalan: batre's en duel
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: dueli
 * French:
 * German:


 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua: duellar
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: duelar
 * Spanish: duelar
 * Swedish: duellera

Anagrams

 * leud, lude

Etymology
From duellum:, under influence from  duo:, from  duellum: (whence  bellum:) <.

Etymology
From duellum:.

Synonyms

 * tvekamp

Derived terms

 * duellere

Alternative forms

 * duwel

Etymology
From duel, from Medieval  duellum 'combat between two adversaries', associated with duo "two," but originally from  duellum "war," an Old Latin form of bellum 'war, armed combat'

Noun

 * 1) A duel

Synonyms

 * tweekamp

Related terms

 * duelleren
 * duellist

Adjective

 * 1) dual (having two components)

Related terms

 * dualité

Etymology
Probably from dolus: or from  *dolium <  cordolium ("sorrow of the heart") < dolor:.

Noun

 * 1) sadness; grief; sorrow
 * 2) * circa 1170,, Érec et Énide:
 * Son plor et son duel demenant

Descendants

 * French: deuil