Septet

//sɛpˈtɛt// noun

noun ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A group of seven, particularly; A group of seven musicians.

    "The Lindsey Septet performs at Carnegie Hall this evening."

  2. 2
    a musical composition written for seven performers wordnet
  3. 3
    A group of seven, particularly; A composition for a group of seven musicians.

    "[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?"

  4. 4
    seven people considered as a unit wordnet
  5. 5
    A group of seven, particularly; A set of seven lines.
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  1. 6
    a set of seven similar things considered as a unit wordnet
  2. 7
    seven performers or singers who perform together wordnet
  3. 8
    the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one wordnet

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heptadseven7antistrophebipartisanshipbook

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"The Lindsey Septet performs at Carnegie Hall this evening."

Etymology

PIE word *septḿ̥ From Latin septem (“seven”).

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