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quintet

quintet

English

Alternative forms

quintette

Noun

quintet ‎(plural quintets)

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

Translations

(music) a composition in five parts

Catalan: quintet m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 五重奏 (zh) ‎(wǔchóngzòu)
Czech: kvintet (cs) m
Dutch: kwintet (nl) n
Finnish: kvintetto (fi)
French: quintette (fr) m
German: Quintett (de) n
Hungarian: ötös (hu), kvintett (hu)
Italian: quintetto (it) m
Japanese: クインテット ‎(kuintetto), 五重奏 ‎(gojūsō), 五重唱 ‎(gojūshō)

Korean: 퀸텟 ‎(kwintet), 오중주 (ko) ‎(ojungju), 오중창 (ko) ‎(ojungchang)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: kvintett m

Nynorsk: kvintett m
Portuguese: quinteto (pt) m
Romanian: cvintet (ro) n
Russian: квинте́т (ru) m ‎(kvintét)
Spanish: quinteto (es) m
Swedish: kvintett (sv) c
Tagalog: limahan

(music) a group of five musicians

Catalan: quintet m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 五重奏 (zh) ‎(wǔchóngzòu)
Czech: kvinteto (cs) n
Dutch: kwintet (nl) n
Finnish: kvintetti (fi)
French: quintette (fr) m
German: Quintett (de) n

Hungarian: ötös (hu), kvintett (hu)
Italian: quintetto (it) m
Norwegian:

Bokmål: kvintett m

Nynorsk: kvintett m
Polish: kwintet m
Portuguese: quinteto (pt) m
Romanian: cvintet (ro) n
Russian: квинте́т (ru) m ‎(kvintét)
Spanish: quinteto (es) m
Swedish: kvintett (sv) c

any group of five

Dutch: vijftal (nl) n
Finnish: viisikko (fi)
German: Quintett (de) n
Hungarian: ötös (hu)
Italian: quintetto (it) m

Maori: tokorima
Norwegian:

Bokmål: kvintett m

Nynorsk: kvintett m
Portuguese: quinteto (pt) m
Romanian: cvintet (ro)
Russian: квинте́т (ru) m ‎(kvintét), пятёрка (ru) f ‎(pjatjórka), (collective) пя́теро (ru) pl ‎(pjátero)
Spanish: quinteto (es) m

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