sextuplets in English

noun

1

each of six children born at one birth.

Across town at Via Christi Medical Center, Sondra and Eldon Headrick were also dealing with the media frenzy generated by the birth of their sextuplets one day after the Tetrick boys were born April 5.

2

a group of six notes to be performed in the time of four.

Here the texture is comprised of rushing chromatic sextuplets in the strings, an approach which is strongly reminiscent of the drowning music heard in Act 3 of Wozzeck.

noun

sextet, sestet, sise, half a dozen, six, hexad, vi, 6, sixer

Use "sextuplets" in a sentence

1. 17 An Illinois woman reportedly gave birth to sextuplets, five of whom survived.