septet
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛpˈtɛt/
- Rhymes: -ɛt
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| Cardinal: seven Ordinal: seventh Latinate ordinal: septenary Adverbial: seven times Multiplier: sevenfold Latinate multiplier: septuple Distributive: septuply Group collective: sevensome Multipart collective: septuplet Greek or Latinate collective: heptad Greek collective prefix: hepta- Latinate collective prefix: septua- Fractional: seventh Elemental: septuple Greek prefix: ebdomo- Number of musicians: septet Number of years: septennium | ||
Noun
septet (plural septets)
- A group of seven, particularly
- (music) A group of seven musicians.
- The Lindsey Septet performs at Carnegie Hall this evening.
- (music) A composition for a group of seven musicians.
- 1871 December, Robert Browning, Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society, London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC, page 124:
- [W]hoso rhymes a sonnet pays a tax, / Who paints a landscape dips brush at his cost, / Who scores a septett true for strings and wind / Mulcted must be—else how should I impose / Properly, attitudinize aright, / Did such conflicting claims as these divert / Hohenstiel-Schwangau from observing me?
- (poetry) A set of seven lines.
- (music) A group of seven musicians.
Synonyms
- septuor, heptad, septuplet
- (poetry): heptastich
Hyponyms
- septennium (years)
Translations
group of seven
musical composition for seven instruments or seven voices
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