quartet
noun /kwɔːˈtet/
/kwɔːrˈtet/
- [countable + singular or plural verb] a group of four musicians or singers who play or sing together
enlarge image- the Amadeus Quartet
- [countable] a piece of music for four musicians or singers
- a Beethoven string quartet
- [countable + singular or plural verb] a set of four people or things
- the last in a quartet of novels
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the general sense ‘set of four’): from French quartette, from Italian quartetto, from quarto ‘fourth’, from Latin quartus.