sestet

Meaning

1. A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor.
2. The last six lines of a sonnet, forming two stanzas of three lines each.

Synonyms

sextet

sextette

sextuplet

sestette

sextain

VI

sixer

6

sise

Captain Hicks

half a dozen

six line stanza

hexad

sestina

six

sixsome

Translations

sextuor

sestetto

sestina

εξάστιχο

εξαφωνία

six

6

10

sextuplé

sixain

sei

6

6

sis

6

sexteto

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɛsˈtɛt/

Etymology

From Italian sestetto, from sesto (“sixth”), Latin sextus, from sex (“six”).