quartet

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quar·tet /kwɔːˈtet $ kwɔːr-/ noun [countable]  1  APMfour singers or musicians who sing or play together 四重唱组合；四重奏乐团 a string quartet (=four people playing musical instruments with strings, such as violins) 弦乐四重奏组2. APMa piece of music written for four performers 四重唱曲；四重奏曲3  GROUP OF PEOPLEGROUP OF THINGSfour people or things of the same type 四人组；四件套，四个一组quartet of a quartet of short films set in the 1920s 以20世纪20年代为背景的四部系列短片 → quintet, trio

Examples from the Corpus

quartet• There was a barbershop quartet on board.• a jazz quartet• All over the country children worked in similar acts but this particular quartet, Les Jolies Petites, was fortunate.• If the Hummel sparkled, their E flat Dvorak piano quartet - a riot of Czechoslovak charm - fairly glinted with riches.string quartet• Howarth has got a string quartet going at the Lab and they gave a concert there.• If he wanted to hear a string quartet there was no question of going out in the evening to a concert.• There was a party in the ballroom: sparkling chandeliers, string quartet.• Mind has waited for 3 billion years on this planet before composing its first string quartet.• Remember those glittering parties, the lanterns lining the drive, the string quartet playing Viennese waltzes?• Stravinsky was never at home with the warm homogeneity of the string quartet.• The string quartet within the orchestra resembles Faure.quartet of• 50 amateur actors led by a quartet of professionalsOrigin quartet (1700-1800) Italian quartetto, from quarto “fourth”, from Latin quartus; → QUARTER1

quar·tet nounChineseSyllable  

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quartet
quar‧tet /kwɔːˈtet $ kwɔːr-/ noun [countable]1. four singers or musicians who sing or play together:
    a string quartet (=four people playing musical instruments with strings, such as violins)
2. a piece of music written for four performers
3. four people or things of the same type
    quartet of
    a quartet of short films set in the 1920s
⇨ quintet
, trio

quar·tetBrE /kwɔːˈtet/ 🔊NAmE /kwɔːrˈtet/ 🔊 noun [countable + singular or plural verb] a group of four musicians or singers who play or sing together 四重奏乐团；四重唱组合◆the Amadeus Quartet阿玛迪厄斯四重奏乐队 [countable] a piece of music for four musicians or singers 四重奏（曲）；四重唱（曲）◆a Beethoven string quartet贝多芬弦乐四重奏曲 [countable + singular or plural verb] a set of four people or things 四人组；四件套；四部曲◆the last in a quartet of novels四部曲小说的最后一部