QUARTET | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of quartet in English

quartet
noun
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/kwɔːrˈtet/ uk
/kwɔːˈtet/

quartet noun (GROUP)

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[ C, + sing/pl verb ]
a group of four people who play musical instruments or sing as a group:
A string quartet was playing Mozart.
 
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quartet noun (PIECE OF MUSIC)

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a piece of music written for four people:
He has composed 18 quartets and 14 symphonies.
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(Definition of quartet from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

quartet | Intermediate English

quartet
noun [ C ]
us
/kwɔrˈtet/
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four people who sing or play musical instruments together, or a piece of music written for four people:
A string quartet was playing Mozart.
(Definition of quartet from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of quartet

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This quartet that once included six members is not always one big, happy family.
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The quartet happened to know some 1940s songs.
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What was the experience of recording this last album with the quartet?
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And the pair is reportedly embroiled in a complicated love quartet.
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But a few changes are taking members of the quartet in new directions.
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It's all honk and grind - the clatter of a hundred bop quartets cooking from 5 a.m. to midnight.
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The messy, convoluted and dully acted third movie in the quartet starts off slow and gets slower.
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The quartet that ends the act reveals two intense, but very different relationships.
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Some say he was the luckiest guy on earth, a competent player who stepped into a million-dollar quartet.
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In them, the quartet of varying body types keeps in touch by passing around one pair of "magical" jeans during their summers apart.
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Her son then joined, cursing out the quartet.
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A start of 45,000 would be the vocal quartet's smallest debut so far.
From Billboard
A bartender claimed she was repeatedly punched by the quartet when she tried to stop them from taking the liquor.
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Translations of quartet

in Chinese (Traditional)
四重奏樂團, 四重唱組合, 四重奏（曲）…
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in Chinese (Simplified)
四重奏乐团, 四重唱组合, 四重奏（曲）…
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cuarteto…
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quarteto…
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4重奏, カルテット…
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dört kişilik müzik grubu, dörtlü, kuartet…
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วงดนตรีมีผู้เล่นสี่คน, เพลงสำหรับเล่นโดยวงดนตรีสี่คน…
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tứ ca, nhóm tứ tấu, bản tứ tấu…
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