sextet
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- noun
- /sɛkˈtɛt/
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sexteto
- Plus, I'm feathering in a Latin sextet on their breaks.
- jazz sextet
Examples
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The Met chorus, standing in for the entire populace of Rome and decked out in appropriate 18th-century attire, provided able support in the crowd scenes in Act II, particularly the bright, blazing final sextet.
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The local sextet is rehearsing for their upcoming performance at the music festival this summer.
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We'd have made a sextet.
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I call it the Cloud Atlas Sextet.
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This is the Cloud Atlas Sextet?
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Well, it's a theme from New York, New York, the Jimmy Doyle Sextet.
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That's the Jimmy Doyle Sextet, later in the show... ...the entire theme from New York, New York.
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Listen, cut a minute out of George's comedy... and then bring the trumpet sextet up before the Hawaiian number.
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Species composition effects (Symstad et al., 1998) were indicated for every attribute considered (there is at least one species that can match the performance of the average sextet), but it is not the same species for all response variables (that is, all species are needed to achieve high levels of all functions).
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As I type this, it is approaching twelve hours since I saw it, and in another room of the house, I can hear the strains of the Sextet playing—purchased shortly after arriving at a place with Wi-Fi.
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Synonyms
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A group of six similar things seen as one unit
A group of six people who perform music together
A group of six musicians who perform together or a piece for six players
A group of six people who do something together
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Surface Forms
Morphology
sextet = six (transparent) = sext + et
Formed from the numeral 'six' with a group-forming suffix '-et'; the meaning 'group of six' is directly inferable.
Etymology
The word sextet comes from the Latin sex meaning 'six' and the ending -et, which names a small group as in quartet. That's why a sextet is a group of six musicians or singers who perform together.