Quintet

Noun

 * 1)  A composition (a type of chamber music) in five parts (typically each a singer or instrumentalist, sometimes several musicians)
 * 2)  A group of five musicians, fit to play such a piece of music together
 * 3) Any group of five members

Thesaurus
Pentateuch, Philharmonic, Phoebe, V, band, big band, bipartisanship, brass, brass band, brass choir, brass quintet, brass section, brasses, callithumpian band, chamber orchestra, cinque, 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, desks, dixieland band, duet, duettino, duo, duumvirate, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism, ensemble, ensemble music, ensemble singing, esprit, esprit de corps, fellow feeling, fellowship, fin, five, five bucks, five dollars, fiver, fivesome, gamelan orchestra, group, harmony, jazz band, joining of forces, joint effort, joint operation, jug band, mass action, military band, morale, mullet, mutual assistance, mutualism, mutuality, octet, orchestra, part music, part singing, part song, pentachord, pentad, pentagon, pentagram, pentahedron, pentameter, pentapody, pentarchy, pentastich, pentathlon, polyphonic music, pooling, pooling of resources, pulling together, quartet, quincunx, quint, quintuplet, ragtime band, reciprocity, rock-and-roll group, septet, septuor, sestet, sextet, skiffle band, solidarity, steel band, street band, string band, string choir, string orchestra, string quartet, strings, swing band, symbiosis, symphony, symphony orchestra, synergism, synergy, team spirit, teamwork, terzet, terzetto, trio, triumvirate, troika, united action, waits, woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind quartet, woodwinds

Etymology
From quintetto, diminutive of quinto "fifth", itself from  quintus, related to quinque "five".

Alternative forms

 * quintette

Translations

 * Dutch: kwintet
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ötös, kvintett


 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
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 * Dutch: kwintet
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ötös, kvintett


 * Italian:
 * Polish: kwintet
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Dutch:
 * : groupe de cinque
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ötös


 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: