'Quartet' definitions:
Definition of 'quartet'
(from WordNet)
noun
The cardinal number that is the sum of three and one [syn: four, 4, IV, tetrad, quatern, quaternion, quaternary, quaternity, quartet, quadruplet, foursome, Little Joe]
noun
Four performers or singers who perform together [syn: quartet, quartette]
noun
noun
Four people considered as a unit; "he joined a barbershop quartet"; "the foursome teed off before 9 a.m." [syn: quartet, quartette, foursome]
noun
A musical composition for four performers [syn: quartet, quartette]
Definition of 'Quartet'
From: GCIDE
- Quartet \Quar*tet"\, Quartette \Quar*tette"\, n. [It. quartetto, dim. of quarto the fourth, a fourth part, fr. L. quartus the fourth. See Quart.]
- 1. (Mus.) (a) A composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument. (b) The set of four person who perform a piece of music in four parts. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Poet.) A stanza of four lines. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'quartet'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- band,
- big band,
- bipartisanship,
- biquadrate,
- brass,
- brass band,
- brass choir,
- brass quintet,
- brass section,
- brasses,
- callithumpian band,
- chamber orchestra,
- coaction,
- coadjuvancy,
- coadministration,
- coagency,
- cochairmanship,
- codirectorship,
- collaboration,
- collaborativeness,
- collectivism,
- collusion,
- combo,
- commensalism,
- common effort,
- common enterprise,
- communalism,
- communism,
- communitarianism,
- community,
- complicity,
- concert,
- concert band,
- concord,
- concordance,
- concurrence,
- cooperation,
- cooperativeness,
- desks,
- dixieland band,
- duet,
- duettino,
- duo,
- duumvirate,
- ecumenicalism,
- ecumenicism,
- ecumenism,
- ensemble,
- ensemble music,
- ensemble singing,
- esprit,
- esprit de corps,
- fellow feeling,
- fellowship,
- four,
- four-part diaphony,
- foursome,
- gamelan orchestra,
- German band,
- group,
- harmony,
- jazz band,
- joining of forces,
- joint effort,
- joint operation,
- jug band,
- Little Joe,
- mass action,
- military band,
- morale,
- mutual assistance,
- mutualism,
- mutuality,
- octet,
- orchestra,
- part music,
- part singing,
- part song,
- Philharmonic,
- polyphonic music,
- pooling,
- pooling of resources,
- pulling together,
- quad,
- quadrangle,
- quadrature,
- quadrennium,
- quadrilateral,
- quadrille,
- quadrinomial,
- quadruplet,
- quatern,
- quaternary,
- quaternion,
- quaternity,
- quatrefoil,
- quintet,
- ragtime band,
- reciprocity,
- rectangle,
- rock-and-roll group,
- septet,
- septuor,
- sestet,
- sextet,
- skiffle band,
- solidarity,
- square,
- square dance,
- squaring,
- steel band,
- street band,
- string band,
- string choir,
- string orchestra,
- string quartet,
- strings,
- swing band,
- symbiosis,
- symphony,
- symphony orchestra,
- synergism,
- synergy,
- team spirit,
- teamwork,
- terzet,
- terzetto,
- tetrad,
- tetragon,
- tetragram,
- tetragrammaton,
- tetrahedron,
- tetralogy,
- tetraphony,
- tetrapody,
- trio,
- triumvirate,
- troika,
- united action,
- waits,
- woodwind,
- woodwind choir,
- woodwind quartet,
- woodwinds