quartette

1. 1.

   four performers or singers who perform together

   Synonymsquartet

   Broadermusical organization

   Narrowerbarbershop quartetstring quartet
2. 2.

   a set of four similar things considered as a unit

   Synonymsquartetquadrupletquadruple

   Broaderset
3. 3.

   four people considered as a unit

   “he joined a barbershop quartet”

   “the foursome teed off before 9 a.m.”

   Synonymsquartetfoursome

   Broadergathering

   Narrowerquadrumvirate
4. 4.

   a musical composition for four performers

   Synonymsquartet

   Broadermusical composition

Other forms of quartette

plural

quartettes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about quartette

What does quartette mean?

quartette means "four performers or singers who perform together". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quartette?

quartette has 2 syllables: quar-tette. The stress falls on "quar".

What is another word for quartette?

Close synonyms include quartet, quartet, quadruplet, quadruple, quartet. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is quartette a common word?

quartette is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.