Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A series of four related dramatic, operatic, or literary works.
- n. Medicine A complex of four symptoms.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A group of four dramatic compositions, three tragic and one satyric, which were exhibited in connection on the Athenian stage for the prize at the festivals of Bacchus. The term has been extended to a group of four operatic works treating of related themes, and intended to be performed in connection.
Wiktionary
- n. 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.
- n. medicine A combination of four symptoms.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Gr. Drama) 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a series of four related works (plays or operas or novels)
Etymologies
- From tetra- + -logy. (Wiktionary)
- Greek tetralogiā : tetra-, tetra- + -logos, word, saying; see -logy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It's very tempting to think and will surely be quite an orgasmic? event, but alas it's only a dream. tetralogy tetralogy*”
Louis Leterrier Dreams Of Epic Avengers Quadrilogy, Released Over One Summer | /Film
“I can imagine someone saying that the New Sun tetralogy is not to his taste, or that some events in the books were unclear at first reading, but you have cut yourself from some of the finest writing in the English language, certainly the finest in science fiction, if you dismiss this wonder as crap.”
“Peter Gruber, MD: So it was described as a tetralogy, or four basic problems.”
“Alfred Blalock (160,000 lives saved): This surgeon developed a way to treat a heart defect called tetralogy of Fallot (tet-TRAH-logy of fal-LOH), a condition that prevents a child's blood from getting enough oxygen from the lungs.”
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“I had begun Terms of Endearment, the third volume in what would eventually be the Houston or, if you prefer, Terms tetralogy.”
“Your brother has a dangerous condition called tetralogy of Fallot.”
“Socheat suffers from a defect known as tetralogy of Fallot.”
“In the congenital condition, called tetralogy of Fallot, a complicated structural defect allows blood returning from the body to the heart to be pumped out again without going to the lungs to be resupplied with oxygen.”
“Sometimes pulmonary regurgitation results from surgery to correct heart defects such as tetralogy of Fallot.”
“I can recommend Tad Williams' "Otherland" tetralogy which is a crossover between fantasy and SF.”
Recommend a fantasy novel to someone who doesn't like fantasy.
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tetralogy’.
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New words
new words or spelling issues
voluble, Metagrobolize, salubrious, calumny, fugacity, withdrawal, bourse, hypertrophy, leitmotif, argot, improvident, damask and 238 more...
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-ism's -logies
acosmism, absurdism, absolutism, ableism, aestheticism, alarmism, allotheism, anachronism, animalculism, analogism, animatism, animism and 464 more...
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just popped into my head
words that just popped into my head. Can be anything.
passion, borogoves, charlie chan, sequel, film franchise, just popped into ..., you, go, matrix, the, tetralogy, popsicle stand
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Artistic Endeavors in Multiple Volumes
A numerical series used to describe a single coherent narrative work appearing in multiple volumes. This series is based solely on Ancient Greek roots, avoiding any inadvertent & embarrassing admix...
trilogy, tetralogy, pentalogy, hexalogy, heptalogy, octalogy, ennealogy, decalogy..., eicosalogy, triacontalogy..., hecatology
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Greek
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NTDW1
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Just 'cause I like 'em, T
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Master
comprehensive
picaresque, carnivalesque, -esque, grotesque, Cocteau, necropolis, hypnopædic, mojito, imprimatur, insouciance, idyll, maestro and 239 more...
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rememberers
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Tweets
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gangerh Funny, I read it as quadrilogy. Mar 1, 2008
mollusque I read this at first as teratology. Mar 1, 2008
yarb I'm currently reading Ford Madox Ford's tetralogy, Parade's End. Mar 1, 2008