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Word: Duel
Speech Type: Noun
late 15th century: from Latin duellum, archaic and literary form of bellum ‘war’, used in medieval Latin with the meaning ‘combat between two persons’, partly influenced by dualis ‘of two’. The original sense was ‘single combat used to decide a judicial dispute’; the sense ‘contest to decide a point of honour’ dates from the early 17th century
ˈdjuːəl
a contest with deadly weapons arranged between two people in order to settle a point of honour
Short Definition:prearranged contest with deadly weapons between two people
Examples:- twice he had seriously wounded men in duels
Word: Duel
Speech Type: Verb
ˈdjuːəl
fight a duel or duels
Short Definition:fight duel or duels
Examples:- shall we duel over this?
- duelling had been forbidden for serving officers
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