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septet

/sɛpˈtɛt/

septet noun: a group of seven musicians.

Noun

septet (plural septets)

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. A set of seven lines.

septet meaning in Tamil and Sanskrit

septet in Tamil

ஏழன் தொகுதி

septet in Sanskrit

a septet, a group of seven
साप्त

Synonyms of septet

Forms of septet

pluralseptets
alternative formseptette

Origin of septet

PIE word *septḿ̥ From Latin septem (“seven”).

Words that rhyme with septet

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Questions about septet

What does septet mean?
Septet means a group of seven musicians.
What is septet in Tamil?
Septet in Tamil is ஏழன் தொகுதி. See Septet meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is septet?
Septet is a noun.
How do you pronounce septet?
Septet is pronounced /sɛpˈtɛt/.
What is the plural of septet?
The plural of septet is septets.

Words near septet in the dictionary

  1. septentrion
  2. septentrional
  3. septentrionaline
  4. septentrions
  5. septenvigintillion
  6. septet
  7. septets
  8. septette
  9. septettes
  10. septfoil
  11. septfoils

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Adapted from Wiktionary: septet (page history and authors); septet (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); साप्त (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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