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From French quartette, from Italian quartetto. Doublet of cuarteto and quartetto.

English numbers (edit)
[a], [b] ←  3 4 5  → 
    Cardinal: four
    Ordinal: fourth
    Latinate ordinal: quartary, quaternary
    Reverse order ordinal: fourth to last, fourth from last, last but three
    Latinate reverse order ordinal: preantepenultimate
    Adverbial: four times
    Multiplier: fourfold
    Latinate multiplier: quadruple
    Distributive: quadruply
    Germanic collective: foursome
    Collective of n parts: quadruplet
    Greek or Latinate collective: tetrad
    Greek collective prefix: tetra-, tessera-
    Latinate collective prefix: quadri-
    Fractional: quarter, fourth
    Latinate fractional prefix: quadrant-
    Elemental: quadruplet
    Greek prefix: tetarto-
    Number of musicians: quartet
    Number of years: quadrennium, olympiad

quartet (plural quartets)

  1. 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.

    1. (music) A group of four musicians who perform classical music together.
    3. (music) A musical composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument.
    4. (music) A group of four singers, usually males, who sings together in four-part harmony.

group of four

four musicians who perform a piece of music together

musical composition for four musicians

quartet m (plural quartets)

  1. A quartet, a group of four people or things, particularly
    1. A group of four musicians who perform music together.
    2. A group of four singers who sing together in four-part harmony.
    3. A poem in four verses, especially decasyllable ones, that usually rhyme first and fourth, and the other two.

quartet m (plural quartets)

  1. quartet

quartet n (plural quartete)

  1. Alternative form of cvartet