duad

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdjuːæd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈd(j)uæd/
• Hyphenation: du‧ad

Noun

duad (plural duads)

1. A pair or couple.

   Synonyms: dyad, twosome; see also Thesaurus:duo

   • 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 96:

     [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.

2. (astrology) Dwadasama.
3. (mathematics) An unordered pair.

Coordinate terms

• (group) monad, duad/dyad, triad, tetrad, pentad, hexad, hebdomad/heptad, ogdoad/octad, ennead/nonad, decad/decade, hendecad, dodecad/duodecade, chiliad

Derived terms

• duadic

Anagrams

• Dadu, Duda, daud, udad

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• düüdj (Mooring)
• duar (Sylt)

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *daudaz.

Pronunciation

• (Föhr-Amrum) IPA^(key): [duɐ̯d]

Noun

duad

1. (Föhr-Amrum) dead

Inflection

Inflection of duad (Föhr-Amrum dialect)

	masculine		feminine / neuter	plural
	indefinite	definite
not comparable
predicative / adverbial	duad
attributive	duaden	duad		duad
independent				duaden
partitive	duads			—

Related terms

• duas

Swedish

Participle

duad

1. past participle of dua

Anagrams

• udda