septet
noun/sɛpˈtɛt/
Etymology PIE word *septḿ̥ From Latin septem (“seven”).
› A group of seven, particularly
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A group of seven musicians.
- The Lindsey Septet performs at Carnegie Hall this evening.
- The K-pop septet BTS will return in spring 2026 with a new album and world tour.2025 July 1, Maria Sherman, “BTS will return in spring 2026 with a new album and world tour”, in Associated Press, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2026:
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A composition for a group of seven musicians.
- [W]hoso rhymes a sonnet pays a tax, / Who paints a landscape dips brush at his cost, / Who scores a septett true for strings and wind / Mulcted must be—else how should I impose / Properly, attitudinize aright, / Did such conflicting claims as these divert / Hohenstiel-Schwangau from observing me?1871 December, Robert Browning, Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society, London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC, page 124:
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Communications, Journalism, Literature, Media, Poetry, Publishing, Writing A set of seven lines.
- Synonyms
- septuor, heptad, septuplet, heptastich
- Related terms
- number
- Hyponyms
- septennium