意味(日本語)

決闘 ◇duo(＝two)＋L.bellum(＝war)

語源

• bell- : L.bel(l)-, L.bellum = war(戦争)

意味(英語)

• (noun) A prearranged, formal combat between two persons, usually fought to settle a point of honor.
• (noun) A struggle for domination between two contending persons, groups, or ideas.
• (verb-transitive) To engage (another) in or as if in formal combat.
• (verb-transitive) To oppose actively and forcefully.
• (verb-intransitive) To engage in or as if in formal combat.

例文

• The law says, the killing a man in a duel is murder, and I am bound to tell you it is murder; therefore, in the discharge of my duty, I tell you so; but I tell you at the same time, a _fairer duel_ than this I never heard of in the whole _coorse_ of my life. '

決闘者

語源

• bell- : L.bel(l)-, L.bellum = war(戦争)