septet

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/sɛpˈtɛt/

noun

A group of seven musicians.

“The Lindsey Septet performs at Carnegie Hall this evening.”

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Meanings

nounseptet (plural septets)

plural septets · alternative septette

  1. A group of seven, particularly
    1. entertainmentA group of seven musicians.

      The Lindsey Septet performs at Carnegie Hall this evening.

      1 more example

      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. entertainmentA 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. communicationsA set of seven lines.

Synonyms & antonyms

Narrower

nounthe cardinal number that is the sum of six and one

nounseven performers or singers who perform together

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Broader
musical organizationmusical organisationmusical group

nouna set of seven similar things considered as a unit

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Broader

nounseven people considered as a unit

nouna musical composition written for seven performers

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Latinseptem“seven”
  2. Englishseptet

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

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Translations

Finnish septetti, seitsikko
  • septettigroup of seven
  • seitsikkogroup of seven
Hebrew שִׁבְעַת
  • שִׁבְעַת (Shiv'at)group of seven
Hungarian szeptett
  • szeptettmusical composition for seven instruments or seven voices
Italian settimino
  • settiminogroup of seven
Māori tokowhitu
  • tokowhitugroup of seven
Spanish septeto
  • septetogroup of seven
Swedish septett
  • septettgroup of seven

Rhymes & wordplay

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Cite this entry
APA

septet. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/septet

MLA

“septet.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/septet. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “septet,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/septet.

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