sextette

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A form of sextet — Any group of six people or things.

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Meanings

nounsextette (plural sextettes)

plural sextettes

  1. archaicArchaic spelling of sextet.

    Cecil and Lucy turned up at four o’clock, and these, with little Minnie Beebe, made a somewhat lugubrious sextette upon the upper lawn for tea.

    1908, E. M. Forster, chapter XIV, in A Room with a View

Synonyms & antonyms

nounsix performers or singers who perform together

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musical organizationmusical organisationmusical group

nouna set of six similar things considered as a unit

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set

nounsix people considered as a unit

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gatheringassemblage

nouna musical composition written for six performers

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musical compositionopuscomposition
Also see
sestetsextetsixsome

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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