quartette
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quar·tet
also quar·tette (kwôr-tĕt′)n.
1. Music
a. A composition for four voices or four instruments.
b. A group of four singers or four instrumentalists.
2. A group of four.
[French quartette, from Italian quartetto, diminutive of quarto, fourth, from Latin quārtus; see quart.]
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| Noun | 1. |  quartette - four performers or singers who perform togethermusical group, musical organisation, musical organization - an organization of musicians who perform together barbershop quartet - an unaccompanied quartet of (usually male) voices singing sentimental songs in four-part harmony string quartet, string quartette - an instrumental quartet with 2 violins and a viola and a cello |
| 2. | quartette - a set of four similar things considered as a unit set - a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used; "a set of books"; "a set of golf clubs"; "a set of teeth" | |
| 3. | quartette - four people considered as a unit; "he joined a barbershop quartet"; "the foursome teed off before 9 a.m." assemblage, gathering - a group of persons together in one place quadrumvirate - a group of four men | |
| 4. | quartette - a musical composition for four performers musical composition, opus, piece of music, composition, piece - a musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements" |
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