the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
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five performers or singers who perform together
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a set of five similar things considered as a unit
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five people considered as a unit
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Quintet \Quin*tet"\, Quintette \Quin*tette"\, n. [It. quintetto, dim. of quinto the fifth, a fifth part, from L. quintus the fifth: cf. F. quintette. See {Quint}.] (Mus.) A composition for five voices or instruments; also, the set of five persons who sing or play five-part music.
Mr. Korder's short scenes follow these galoots to a series of assignations with a quintet of women and with one another.
The Metropolitan Opera Association apparently wasn't pleased when it learned about a local jazz quintet calling itself Metropolitan Bopera House.
The first flock of the gray birds, a quintet that flushed in unison, rose out-of-range along the side of a ridge to the east of guide Mike Smyth and his three gunners.
The quintet teeny-bopper sensation is spawning dolls, puzzles and other items.
They have chosen him to perform with his quintet at a state dinner for the Gorbachevs at Spaso House, the U.S. ambassador's residence where the Reagans are staying during the summit.
And he co-wrote the screenplay for "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home," the warmest and funniest of the initial quintet.
But that is as enthusiastic as he gets: "Most of this record is perfectly horrid fluff." Still, the quintet is clean-cut and camera-ready, plucked from the streets of blue-collar Boston by Mr. Starr, now 36, whose main interest was the boys' looks.
Rotund Oliver Platt has the best lines as the wry conscience of the reckless quintet.