Synonyms for quintet
Definitions
- n. 1
A composition (a type of chamber music) in five parts (typically each a singer or instrumentalist, sometimes several musicians)
The composer wrote a string quintet in his early twenties.
Forms
- Plural
- quintets → fives, cinques, pentads, quintuplets…
Example sentences
- fivesome Is there such a thing as a fivesome, or is it just called an orgy at that point?
- quintuple I love songs like this. Or rather, I love any song with a quintuple meter.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| quintet | steady | |
| quint | steady | |
| pentad | rising | |
| quintuplet | falling | |
| fivesome | steady | |
| quintuple | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- fin1
- 4 letters
- five1
- 5 letters
- quint1
- 6 letters
- phoebe2, cinque1, pentad, pentet
- 7 letters
- quinity, quintad
- 8 letters
- fivesome
- 9 letters
- quintuple3, pentuplet
- 10 letters
- quintuplet3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (phoebe2 = 2 syllables).