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tetralogy


noun, plural te·tral·o·gies.

  1. a series of four related dramas, operas, novels, etc.
  2. a group of four dramas, three tragedies and one satyr play, performed consecutively at the festival of Dionysus in ancient Athens.

noun plural -gies

  1. a series of four related works, as in drama or opera
  2. (in ancient Greece) a group of four dramas, the first three tragic and the last satiric
  3. pathol a group of four symptoms present in one disorder, esp Fallot’s tetralogy

n.1650s, from Greek tetralogia, from tetra- (see tetra-) + -logia (see -logy). n.

  1. A complex of four symptoms.
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