duelとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈdjuːəl/
• (General American) enPR: d(y)o͞oʹəl, IPA^(key): /ˈd(j)uəl/

• Homophone: dual
• 韻: -uːəl, -ʊəl
• ハイフネーション: du‧el

名詞

duel (複数形 duels)

1. Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor.
   • 1844 January–December​, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “In Which I Show Myself to Be a Man of Spirit”, in “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. [The Luck of Barry Lyndon.]”, in Miscellanies: Prose and Verse, volume III, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1856, OCLC 769792815, page 36:

     I have often thought since, how different my fate might have been, had I not fallen in love with Nora at that early age; and had I not flung the wine in Quin’s face, and so brought on the duel.

   • 2004 July 5, Jason George, “A Duel Evokes Dueling Emotions Over a Unique Place in History”, in The New York Times‎^[1], ISSN 0362-4331:

     It has been 200 years, minus a few days, since Vice President Aaron Burr fatally shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel here. Weehawken and the duel have been tied together in an often-uncomfortable knot ever since.

2. Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat).
3. (by extension) Any battle or struggle between two contending persons, forces, groups, or ideas.

   a sniper duel

   • 2019 March 6, Drachinifel, The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!‎^[2], archived from the original on 20 July 2022, retrieved 22 July 2022, 25:33 from the start:

     But it leaves them with a few destroyers, the American destroyer force is falling back, and then you have the two cruiser lines with their respective battleships coming in for the big duel.

   • 2021 May 1, John Naughton, “Apple comes out swinging in the duel of the data titans”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     Apple comes out swinging in the duel of the data titans [title]

動詞

duel (third-person singular simple present duels, present participle (米国用法) dueling or (英国用法) duelling, simple past and past participle (米国用法) dueled or (英国用法) duelled)

1. To engage in a battle.

   The two dogs were duelling for the bone.

   • 2019 February 19, “Lightsaber duelling registered as official sport in France”, in The Guardian‎^[4]:

     The country’s fencing federation has officially recognised lightsaber duelling as a competitive sport, granting the weapon from George Lucas’s space saga the same status as the foil, epee and sabre, the traditional blades used at the Olympics.

派生語

• duelist
• truel

関連する語

• duello
• dual

アナグラム

• ULed, leud, lude, lued