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English
Etymology
From French quartette, from Italian quartetto. Doublet of cuarteto and quartetto.
Pronunciation
Noun
quartet (plural quartets)
- A group of four people or things, particularly
2015, Tony Holmes, American Eagles: US Fighter Pilots in the RAF 1939-1945:The last of the quartet of American fighter pilots to join the RAF before the war was Cyril 'Pussy' Palmer, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in March 1918.
- (music) A group of four musicians who perform classical music together.
- (music) A musical composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument.
- (music) A group of four singers, usually males, who sings together in four-part harmony.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
musical composition for four musicians
See also
Catalan
Pronunciation
Noun
quartet m (plural quartets)
- A quartet, a group of four people or things, particularly
- A group of four musicians who perform music together.
- A group of four singers who sing together in four-part harmony.
- A poem in four verses, especially decasyllable ones, that usually rhyme first and fourth, and the other two.
Further reading
- “quartet”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , 2007 April
- “quartet”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
- “quartet” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “quartet” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Pronunciation
Noun
quartet m (plural quartets)
- quartet
Further reading
Romanian
Noun
quartet n (plural quartete)
- alternative form of cvartet
Declension