Definitions for octet

octet oc·tet

Spelling: [ok-tet]
IPA: /ɒkˈtɛt/

Octet is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in octet (ceott).

Definitions for octet

noun

  1. a company of eight singers or musicians.
  2. a musical composition for eight voices or instruments.
  3. Prosody. octave (def 4).
  4. any group of eight.

Origin of octet

1860-65; oct- + -et, as in duet

Examples for octet

Sonata for piano, violin, and violoncello (from the octet, Op. 103); pub.

Felix had not completed his seventeenth year when the octet was written.

As an additional piece, an arrangement of a movement from Schubert's octet was conceded.

Moreover, his earlier chamber compositions were in three movements, the minuet having been added for the first time in the octet.

Miss Edith Williams, the member of the octet who fainted on the stage, swooned again soon after she took the witness stand.

Later he wrote a new postlude, which is found among motivi for the octet and the Trio in C minor.

The central sphere is also figured; the cigar follows its usual course, and its companions unite into a sextet and an octet.

octet for wind instruments, in E flat major; composed in Bonn before 1792.

The octet was finished and the first two lines of the sestet.

In recent months, the Israeli press has been rife with speculation about how the octet would view a strike on Iran.

Word Value for octet
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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