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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Septet \Sep*tet"\, Septette \Sep*tette"\, noun [From L. septem seven, like duet, from L. duo.]
1. A set of seven persons or objects; as, a septet of singers.
2. (Mus.) A musical composition for seven instruments or seven voices; -- called also {septuor}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
septet
noun
1: the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one [syn: {seven}, {7}, {VII}, {sevener}, {heptad}]
2: seven performers or singers who perform together [syn: {septette}]
3: a set of seven similar things considered as a unit [syn: {septette}]
4: seven people considered as a unit [syn: {septette}, {sevensome}]
5: a musical composition written for seven performers [syn: {septette}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
117 Moby Thesaurus words for "septet": Heptateuch, Spenserian stanza, antistrophe, bipartisanship, book, burden, canto, chorus, coaction, coadjuvancy, coadministration, coagency, cochairmanship, codirectorship, collaboration, collaborativeness, collectivism, collusion, commensalism, common effort, common enterprise, communalism, communism, communitarianism, community, complicity, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, cooperation, cooperativeness, couplet, distich, duet, duettino, duo, duumvirate, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism, ensemble music, ensemble singing, envoi, epode, esprit, esprit de corps, fellow feeling, fellowship, harmony, heptachord, heptad, heptagon, heptahedron, heptameter, heptarchy, heptastich, hexastich, joining of forces, joint effort, joint operation, line, mass action, measure, monostich, morale, mutual assistance, mutualism, mutuality, octastich, octave, octet, ottava rima, part music, part singing, part song, pentastich, polyphonic music, pooling, pooling of resources, pulling together, quartet, quatrain, quintet, reciprocity, refrain, rhyme royal, septennate, septuor, sestet, seven, sevener, sextet, solidarity, stanza, stave, strain, strophe, syllable, symbiosis, synergism, synergy, team spirit, teamwork, tercet, terza rima, terzet, terzetto, tetrastich, trio, triplet, tristich, triumvirate, troika, united action, verse, week
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