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quartet

UK/kwɔː(ɹ)ˈtɛt/US/kwɔː(ɹ)ˈtɛt/
nounB2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,736 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: quartets

A quartet is a group of four performers, or a piece for them. A string quartet, play in a quartet, a jazz quartet.

The string quartet is two violins, a viola and a cello, and composers have treated it as the most searching form there is because there is nowhere to hide. The word names the piece as well as the players.

Jorge Royan · CC BY-SA 3.0

Definitions of quartet

  1. 1nounquartetA group of four performers, or a piece for them.B2+

    “A jazz quartet played softly in the corner of the hotel bar.”

quartet is a group.

Where it comes from

Italian quartetto is a diminutive of quarto, fourth, from Latin quartus.

  1. Italian

    quartetto

  2. French

    quartette

  3. English, today

    quartet

From French quartette, from Italian quartetto. a doublet of cuarteto and quartetto.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

quartet in the wild

  • In music, a quartet (French: quatuor, German: Quartett, Italian: quartetto, Spanish: cuarteto, Polish: kwartet) is an ensemble of four singers or instrumental performers.

    Quartet

  • The term string quartet is a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play the quartets.

    String quartet

  • The Oak Ridge Boys are an American vocal quartet.

    The Oak Ridge Boys

  • The Juilliard String Quartet (JSQ) is a classical music string quartet founded in 1946 at the Juilliard School in New York by William Schuman and Robert Mann.

    Juilliard String Quartet

  • The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco.

    Kronos Quartet

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.