variants
or less commonly quartette
1
: a musical composition for four instruments or voices
2
: a group or set of four
especially
: the performers of a quartet
Examples of quartet in a Sentence
He is a member of a jazz quartet.
a string quartet by Beethoven
The author wrote a quartet of novels about the same character.
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Jennie, a founding member of K-pop quartet BLACKPINK, has officially announced her debut solo album, Ruby.
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Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2025
In the living room, the string quartet tuned and sawed to life as hosts Carisa Bianca Mellado and Andrew Dalziell laid out the night’s program: four L.A. film composers leading sets of new piano and string pieces.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
The quartet at the center of Steven Soderbergh‘s ghost story Presence has refined their own particular brand of dysfunction to perfection.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2025
In one of their final performances, as finalists, the quartet sang alongside One Direction — composed of Styles, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, and Liam Payne.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 21 Jan. 2025
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Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2025
In the living room, the string quartet tuned and sawed to life as hosts Carisa Bianca Mellado and Andrew Dalziell laid out the night’s program: four L.A. film composers leading sets of new piano and string pieces.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
The quartet at the center of Steven Soderbergh‘s ghost story Presence has refined their own particular brand of dysfunction to perfection.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2025
In one of their final performances, as finalists, the quartet sang alongside One Direction — composed of Styles, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, and Liam Payne.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 21 Jan. 2025
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“Quartet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quartet. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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quartet
noun
quar·tet
variants
also quartette
1
a
: a musical composition for four instruments or voices
b
: the performers of a quartet
2
: a group or set of four
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