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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Rob Reischel, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
After a short stint in the quartet A4 during the late Nineties, Wheesung (who is also sometimes recorded as Realslow) kicked off his solo career in 2002 with his debut album, Like a Movie.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025
The quartet assigned to the SpaceX Crew-10 mission arrived to KSC having flown into the former space shuttle landing facility Thursday afternoon.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2025
Over the past half-decade, the quartet has transcended the boundaries between K-pop and the global mainstream in ways that no other girl group had done before, turning the momentum from their 2010s singles and projects into a 2020s breakthrough, particularly in North America.
—Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 6 Mar. 2025
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“Quartet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quartet. Accessed 24 Mar. 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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