Sestet
/sɛsˈtɛt/ noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor.
- 2 a rhythmic group of six lines of verse wordnet
- 3 The last six lines of a sonnet, forming two stanzas of three lines each.
- 4 a musical composition written for six performers wordnet
- 5 a set of six similar things considered as a unit wordnet
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- 6 six performers or singers who perform together wordnet
- 7 the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one wordnet
Etymology
From Italian sestetto, from sesto (“sixth”), Latin sextus, from sex (“six”).