Noun: quartet
| Singular | quartet |
| Plural | quartets |
Sample Sentences
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The last of the quartet of American fighter pilots to join the RAF before the war was Cyril 'Pussy' Palmer, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in March 1918. [2015, Tony Holmes, American Eagles: US Fighter Pilots in the RAF 1939-1945:]
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The string quartet played some chamber music.
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He composed a string quartet.
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The barbershop quartet performed the composition a cappella.
Nouns inflected like quartet
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French quartette, from Italian quartetto. Doublet of cuarteto and quartetto. See: French Nouns '
quartette', Italian Nouns '
quartetto'.