septet

[ sep-tet ]

noun

1. any group of seven persons or things.
2. a company of seven singers or musicians.
3. a musical composition for seven voices or instruments.

septet

/ sɛpˈtɛt /

noun

1. music a group of seven singers or instrumentalists or a piece of music composed for such a group
2. a group of seven people or things

Word History and Origins

Origin of septet¹

From German, dating back to 1830–40; septi-, -et

Word History and Origins

Origin of septet¹

C19: from German, from Latin septem seven

Example Sentences

They would later be dubbed a “bloodthirsty” “lesbian she-wolf pack” and—most famously—“a seething, Sapphic septet.”

From The Daily Beast

You may perhaps be surprised that I make no difference of price between the sonata, septet, and symphony.

From Project Gutenberg

Moreover, I believe Salomon to be as incapable of the baseness of engraving the septet as I am of selling it to him.

From Project Gutenberg

It was told by Mittag, a bassoon player who had taken part in a performance of the Septet at a concert on December 11.

From Project Gutenberg

The atoms are arranged in two tetrahedra with a common apex, and the relationship is maintained in the meta-body, a septet.

From Project Gutenberg

On the hyper level the triplet becomes a duad and a unit; the duad becomes two units; and the septet a triplet and a quartet.

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