TETRALOGY

tetralogy

(noun) a series of four related works (plays or operas or novels)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

tetralogy (plural tetralogies)

A set of four works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as four individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.

(historical) A group of four dramas, three tragic and one satiric, exhibited together at the festivals of Dionysus at Athens.

(medicine) A combination of four symptoms.

(medicine, colloquial) Tetralogy of Fallot.

Synonyms

• (four related works): quadrilogy (nonstandard)

Source: Wiktionary


Te*tral"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. Tetra-) + tétralogie.] (Gr. Drama)

Definition: A group or series of four dramatic pieces, three tragedies and one satyric, or comic, piece (or sometimes four tragedies), represented consequently on the Attic stage at the Dionysiac festival.

Note: A group or series of three tragedies, exhibited together without a fourth piese, was called a trilogy.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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