variants
or less commonly quartette
1
: a musical composition for four instruments or voices
2
: a group or set of four
especially
: the performers of a quartet
Examples of quartet in a Sentence
He is a member of a jazz quartet.
a string quartet by Beethoven
The author wrote a quartet of novels about the same character.
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Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 30 Nov. 2025
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As the quartet’s secrets and longings come to light, so, too, do traumas of the Second World War and the restless, uncomfortable dynamics of a modern age in transition.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Later in the set’s first week, a deluxe digital download version of the album was sold exclusively via the quartet’s webstore, which added the four songs that were initially only available on the member-specific CD variants, along with a fifth bonus cut exclusive to the download album.
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Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 30 Nov. 2025
Listing literally dozens of TV segments, newspaper and online articles that rubbed the White House the wrong way, the site also features a Hall of Shame quartet and leaderboard.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 28 Nov. 2025
As the quartet’s secrets and longings come to light, so, too, do traumas of the Second World War and the restless, uncomfortable dynamics of a modern age in transition.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Later in the set’s first week, a deluxe digital download version of the album was sold exclusively via the quartet’s webstore, which added the four songs that were initially only available on the member-specific CD variants, along with a fifth bonus cut exclusive to the download album.
—Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 24 Nov. 2025
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“Quartet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quartet. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.
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quartet
noun
quar·tet
variants
also quartette
1
a
: a musical composition for four instruments or voices
b
: the performers of a quartet
2
: a group or set of four
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