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Quintet

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Noun

1. quintet, quintette

a musical composition for five performers

2. 5, cinque, fin, five, fivesome, little phoebe, pentad, phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet, v

the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one

3. quintet, quintette

five performers or singers who perform together

4. quintet, quintette, quintuple, quintuplet

a set of five similar things considered as a unit

5. fivesome, quintet, quintette

five people considered as a unit

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Quintet

see synonyms of quintet
noun
1. 
a group of five singers or instrumentalists or a piece of music composed for such a group
2. 
any group of five

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Quintet

see synonyms of quintet
noun
1. 
any group or set of five persons or things
2.  Music
a. 
a composition for five voices or five instruments, as for string quartet and piano
b. 
a group of five performers of such a composition, or any group of five musicians playing together

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Quintet

see synonyms of quintet
n.
1. Music
a. A composition for five voices or five instruments.
b. A group of five singers or five instrumentalists.
2. A group of five.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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