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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Lionsgate shelled out north of $90 million to revive the franchise, which is directed by Ruben Fleischer and sees Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher and Dave Franco return as a quartet of Robin Hood-like illusionists.
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J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 15 Nov. 2025
Zayn Malik was the first to depart the group in March 2015, leaving Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Harry Styles to finish the remainder of what would be their final world tour as a quartet, as well as release one last album together.
—Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 14 Nov. 2025
In his caption, Cannon took the time to share the nicknames of the quartet.
—Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025
Amid the second surge of the virus, in August 2020, the first ‘covid novel’ arrived—Ali Smith’s Summer, the last of a seasonal quartet, written during Britain’s early lockdown, which includes real-time descriptions of the pandemic’s onset.
—Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
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J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 15 Nov. 2025
Zayn Malik was the first to depart the group in March 2015, leaving Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Harry Styles to finish the remainder of what would be their final world tour as a quartet, as well as release one last album together.
—Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 14 Nov. 2025
In his caption, Cannon took the time to share the nicknames of the quartet.
—Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025
Amid the second surge of the virus, in August 2020, the first ‘covid novel’ arrived—Ali Smith’s Summer, the last of a seasonal quartet, written during Britain’s early lockdown, which includes real-time descriptions of the pandemic’s onset.
—Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
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“Quartet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quartet. Accessed 18 Nov. 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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