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Sextet   /sˌɛkstˈɛt/   Listen
Sextet

noun
1.
A musical composition written for six performers.  Synonyms: sestet, sextette.
2.
The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.  Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sestet, sextuplet, sise, six, sixer, VI.
3.
Six performers or singers who perform together.  Synonyms: sestet, sextette.
4.
A set of six similar things considered as a unit.  Synonyms: sestet, sextette.
5.
Six people considered as a unit.  Synonyms: sextette, sixsome.





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"Sextet" Quotes from Famous Books



... made a lot of talk, naturally. The size of it alone commanded the popular interest. Besides, the personnel of the group of villains was such as to lend an aspect of picturesqueness to the final proceedings. The sextet included a full-blooded Cherokee; a consumptive ex-dentist out of Kansas, who from killing nerves in teeth had progressed to killing men in cold premeditation; a lank West Virginia mountaineer whose family name was the name of a clan prominent in ...
— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb


Words linked to "Sextet" :   gathering, composition, figure, piece, piece of music, digit, musical organization, assemblage, opus, set, musical composition, musical organisation, musical group


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