'Quintet' definitions:
Definition of 'quintet'
(from WordNet)
noun
A musical composition for five performers [syn: quintet, quintette]
noun
The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one [syn: five, 5, V, cinque, quint, quintet, fivesome, quintuplet, pentad, fin, Phoebe, Little Phoebe]
noun
Five performers or singers who perform together [syn: quintet, quintette]
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Definition of 'Quintet'
From: GCIDE
- Quintet \Quin*tet"\, Quintette \Quin*tette"\, n. [It. quintetto, dim. of quinto the fifth, a fifth part, from L. quintus the fifth: cf. F. quintette. See Quint.] (Mus.) A composition for five voices or instruments; also, the set of five persons who sing or play five-part music. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'quintet'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- band,
- big band,
- bipartisanship,
- brass,
- brass band,
- brass choir,
- brass quintet,
- brass section,
- brasses,
- callithumpian band,
- chamber orchestra,
- cinque,
- 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,
- fin,
- five,
- five bucks,
- five dollars,
- fiver,
- fivesome,
- gamelan orchestra,
- group,
- harmony,
- jazz band,
- joining of forces,
- joint effort,
- joint operation,
- jug band,
- mass action,
- military band,
- morale,
- mullet,
- mutual assistance,
- mutualism,
- mutuality,
- octet,
- orchestra,
- part music,
- part singing,
- part song,
- pentachord,
- pentad,
- pentagon,
- pentagram,
- pentahedron,
- pentameter,
- pentapody,
- pentarchy,
- pentastich,
- Pentateuch,
- pentathlon,
- Philharmonic,
- Phoebe,
- polyphonic music,
- pooling,
- pooling of resources,
- pulling together,
- quartet,
- quincunx,
- quint,
- quintuplet,
- ragtime band,
- reciprocity,
- rock-and-roll group,
- septet,
- septuor,
- sestet,
- sextet,
- skiffle band,
- solidarity,
- 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,
- trio,
- triumvirate,
- troika,
- united action,
- V,
- waits,
- woodwind,
- woodwind choir,
- woodwind quartet,
- woodwinds