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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A composition for six voices or six instruments.
- noun A group of six singers or six instrumentalists.
- noun A group of six.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music:
- noun A work for sis voices or instruments. Compare
quartet and quintet. Also sestet, sextuor. - noun A company of six performers who sing or play sextets.
- noun A bicycle for six riders.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) See
sestet .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun any
group ofsix people orthings - noun music a
composition for sixvoices orinstruments - noun a group of six
singers orinstrumentalists
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
- noun six performers or singers who perform together
- noun a set of six similar things considered as a unit
- noun six people considered as a unit
- noun a musical composition written for six performers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The second part contains six lines, and is therefore called the sextet, from the Latin word sex, meaning six.
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In the B funnel scandium B is repeated, with an addition of _d_ 20 and a sextet for a quintet; the sextet is the _c_ of the "nitrogen balloon."
Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements Annie Wood Besant 1890
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As America's most renowned band devoted to klezmer - the secular, celebratory music of Eastern European Jewry - the sextet is a product of the unique alchemy of New York City's downtown music scene, where polyglot collaborations are the rule rather than the exception.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Russia's foreign ministry says new EU sanctions against Iran show scorn for the United Nations and the so-called "sextet" working to resolve disputes over Iran's nuclear program.
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The Gourmet Club is a collection of six short stories - a "sextet" if you will, and while these tales reveal an array of subject matter and style, they are ultimately very good tales that just miss the mark for greatness.
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Iran's fiery rhetoric, and Russia has labored with the "sextet" to annul the
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United Nations and the so-called "sextet" working to resolve disputes over Iran's nuclear program.
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Russia emphasized that the plant will operate under the IAEA verification systems and that the international community, i.e., the "sextet" in general and the United States specifically, do not oppose its operation in practice.
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United Nations and the so-called "sextet" working to resolve disputes over Iran's nuclear program.
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This clever "sextet" combine beat box with a Capella singing to create a great tribute to MJ.
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Words with the same meaning
- German band
- Hexateuch
- Jewish star
- Magen David
- Philharmonic
- Spenserian stanza
- antistrophe
- band
- big band
- bipartisanship
- book
- brass
- brass band
- brass choir
- brass quintet
- brass section
- brasses
- burden
- callithumpian band
- canto
- chamber orchestra
- chorus
- coaction
- coadjuvancy
- coadministration
- coagency
- cochairmanship
- codirectorship
- collaboration
- collaborativeness
- collectivism
- collusion
- combo
- commensalism
- common effort
- common enterprise
- communalism
- communism
- communitarianism
- community
- complicity
- concert
- concert band
- concord
- concordance
- concurrence
- cooperation
- cooperativeness
- couplet
- desks
- distich
- dixieland band
- duet
- duettino
- duo
- duumvirate
- ecumenicalism
- ecumenicism
- ecumenism
- ensemble
- ensemble music
- ensemble singing
- envoi
- epode
- esprit
- esprit de corps
- estoile
- fellow feeling
- fellowship
- gamelan orchestra
- group
- half a dozen
- harmony
- heptastich
- hexachord
- hexad
- hexagon
- hexagram
- hexahedron
- hexameter
- hexapod
- hexapody
- hexarchy
- hexastich
- hexastyle
- jazz band
- joining of forces
- joint effort
- joint operation
- jug band
- line
- mass action
- measure
- military band
- monostich
- morale
- mutual assistance
- mutualism
- mutuality
- octastich
- octave
- octet
- orchestra
- ottava rima
- part music
- part singing
- part song
- pentastich
- polyphonic music
- pooling
- pooling of resources
- pulling together
- quartet
- quatrain
- quintet
- ragtime band
- reciprocity
- refrain
- rhyme royal
- rock-and-roll group
- septet
- septuor
- sestet
- sextuplet
- sise
- six
- six-pointed star
- sixer
- skiffle band
- solidarity
- stanza
- star of David
- stave
- steel band
- strain
- street band
- string band
- string choir
- string orchestra
- string quartet
- strings
- strophe
- swing band
- syllable
- symbiosis
- symphony
- symphony orchestra
- synergism
- synergy
- team spirit
- teamwork
- tercet
- terza rima
- terzet
- terzetto
- tetrastich
- trio
- triplet
- tristich
- triumvirate
- troika
- united action
- verse
- waits
- woodwind
- woodwind choir
- woodwind quartet
- woodwinds
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Variants
rhymes (144)
Words with the same terminal sound
- Annette
- Antoinette
- Bernadette
- Bizet
- Bret
- Brett
- Burnett
- Calumet
- Chalmette
- Chet
- Colette
- Corvette
- Deseret
- Fayette
- Georgette
- Gillette
- Henriette
- Janette
- Jeanette
- Jeannette
- Lafayette
- Lett
- Linette
- Lisette
- Louisette
- Lynette
- Marquette
- Met
- Net
- Nicolet
- Nicolette
- Odette
- Olivette
- Paulette
- Piet
- Reset
- Set
- Tagamet
- Tet
- Tibet
- Willamette
- Wynette
- Yvette
- abet
- anisette
- baguette
- barbette
- baronet
- barrette
- beget
- beset
- bet
- bett
- boulet
- bret
- brett
- brunet
- brunette
- burnette
- cabriolet
- cadet
- calumet
- cassette
- charette
- charrette
- chevrette
- choquette
- cigarette
- clarinet
- cornet
- cornette
- coronet
- corvette
- cossette
- couchette
- debt
- diskette
- doucet
- duet
- et
- falconet
- fette
- flageolet
- forget
- forgette
- fret
- frett
- gazette
- georgette
- get
- intermet
- jet
- jette
- juliette
- kett
- kitchenette
- let
- lorette
- lorgnette
- luncheonette
- met
- mette
- minaret
- minette
- minuet
- net
- nett
- nyet
- octet
- offset
- pet
- piet
- pipette
- piquette
- preset
- pret
- quartet
- quintet
- regret
- reset
- ret
- rosette
- roulette
- set
- sette
- silhouette
- sobriquet
- statuette
- stet
- suffragette
- surette
- sweat
- threat
- tourette
- unmet
- unset
- upset
- vedette
- vet
- vignette
- wet
- whet
- yet
- yett
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