quintet

Examples

• All

• The quintet is a fine group, and I am glad to be a part of it.

  Blog text (19)

• Our iPad ensemble is a quintet.

  Academic text (2014)

• Three of the groups were quartets, and five of the groups were quintets.

  Academic text (2015)

• The beginning of World War II also marked the end of the quintet, as Grappelli chose to live in London and Reinhardt stayed in Paris.

  Blog text (19)

• I'm performing my dance quintet—you know, my cycle—at Crane Jackson's Fountain Street Theatre on Tuesday night, and I'd love it if you came and gave me notes.

  Fiction book (1998)

• The band performed a beautiful piece as a quintet at the concert last night.

• The educational workshop featured a quintet of experts discussing environmental issues.

• The quintet of friends decided to travel together for their summer vacation.

Synonyms

Q

quint

vsquintet

2 7.1

A group of five people or things considered one unit

is the same idea but appears as a different short form

Q

quintuplet

vsquintet

1 6.2

A group of five similar things thought of as one unit

is the same concept but is a different word form

Q

quintuple

vsquintet

1 7.4

A group of five similar things that form one unit

is the same sense but uses another common label

F

fivesome

vsquintet

1 6.3

A group of five people who work or play together

applies to five items in general, not only people

Q

quintette

vsquintet

• Archaic

7.3

A set of five similar people or things treated as one group

shares meaning but differs only in spelling or variant form

Compounds

S

string quintet

1 5.3

A group of five musicians who play string instruments

How Many

septet

1 7.2

sextet

2 6.3

quintet

3 5.1

quartet

30 3.5

trio

65 2.7

duo

75 2.8

solo

84 3.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology