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Definition: Quartette |
QuartetteNoun1. Four performers or singers who perform together. 2. A set of four similar things considered as a unit. 3. Four people considered as a unit; "he joined a barbershop quartet"; "the foursome teed off before 9 a.m.". 4. A musical composition for four performers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "quartette" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of a quartette, and you are playing or singing, denotes favorable affairs, jolly companions, and good times. To see or hear a quartette, foretells that you will aspire to something beyond you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Synonyms: QuartetteSynonyms: foursome (n), quadruplet (n), quartet (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Quartette |
| Non-English Usage: "Quartette" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (quartet, quartette), German (quartets, quartettes). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The First Piano Quartette (1954) Dance by the Daisy Quartette (1898) | |
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 | Quartette from the new opera of the "Whig celebration at Lundy's Lane." Tune "Will you come to the bower". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Rowdy Boy, the black whirlwind of the pacing quartette of 1879 / J.C. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Expression using "quartette": string quartette. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "quartette"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kuartet (quartet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الرباعية لحن معد لأربع آلات (quartet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | квартет (quartet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kvarteto, kvartet (quartet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | quartette (quartet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Quartett (quartet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τετράσ (quadruplet, tetrad), τετραφωνία (quadraphony). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | רביעי" (four of a kind, quadruplet, tetrad), רבע" (foursome, quadruplet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kvartett. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | quartetto (foursome, quartet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | kiare (four, foursome, left, quadri, quadru-), kiaraid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | artettequay квартет (quartet). (various references) kvartet (quartet), četvorka (four). (various references) cuarteto (quartet, quatrain). (various references) kvartett (quartet). (various references) kuartet (quart, quartet), dörtlü (four, foursome, quad, quadr-, quadraphonic, quadripartite, quadro-, quadrophonic, quadruple, quadruplet, quart, quartet, quater-, quaternary, Square, tetra-, tetrad), dört sesli parça (quartet). (various references) квартет (quartet). (various references) pedwarawd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "quartette": quartettes. (additional references) | |
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"Quartette" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: quarteite, quartett, Quartetto. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-q-r-t-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: quartet. | |
-3 letters: equate, quaere, quarte, quatre, tatter, tauter, tetter. | |
-4 letters: arete, eater, quare, quart, quate, queer, tater, tetra, treat, tutee, urate, utter. | |
-5 letters: rate, rete, tare, tart, tate, taut, tear, teat, tree, tret, true, urea. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-q-r-t-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: quartettes. | |
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