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🎼 A music piece 5️⃣ A group of five 🎷 Five musicians
quintette

quintette

7.5
A piece of music for five musicians to play
  • noun
  • /kwɪnˈtɛt/
  • Archaic
translation icon : quinteto
  • The composer wrote a beautiful quintette for strings.

Examples

  • Their latest album features a piano quintette that received great reviews.

  • The ensemble enjoyed performing the challenging new quintette.

  • The new quintette performed beautifully at the concert.

  • The quintette played a stunning rendition of the classical piece.

  • The ensemble enjoyed performing the challenging new quintette.

  • Their latest album features a piano quintette that received great reviews.

  • The new quintette performed beautifully at the concert.

Synonyms

quintet
vsquintette
2 5.6

A piece of music written for five players

is the same meaning but spelled with an extra e at the end

Surface Forms

quintette singular
quintets plural
quintettes plural

Etymology

Quintette comes from the root quint- meaning 'five' and the French ending -ette meaning 'small' or 'little group'. So a quintette is a musical piece written for five players, like a quartet is for four.