noun ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A composition (a type of chamber music) in five parts (typically each a singer or instrumentalist, sometimes several musicians)
2. 2
   a musical composition for five performers wordnet
3. 3
   A group of five musicians, fit to play such a piece of music together
4. 4
   five people considered as a unit wordnet
5. 5
   Any group of five members

Show 3 more definitions

6. 6
   a set of five similar things considered as a unit wordnet
7. 7
   five performers or singers who perform together wordnet
8. 8
   the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

fivefivesomepentadquintuplet5band

Example

More examples

"There was a brass quintet playing in the lobby of the hotel."

Etymology

From French quintette, from Italian quintetto, diminutive of quinto (“fifth”), itself from Latin quintus, related to quīnque (“five”).

Related phrases

string quintetchamber ensemblechamber musicchamber orchestra

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.