noun

• A group of four powerful or notable people.

  ‘The quadrumvirate of men who provide blurbs for Kirby's fifth collection, read like a who's who of the book's poetic influences.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘He has two quadrumvirates on which he depends: Robinson, Dickinson, Frost and Millay in poetry, and, less rhythmically, Faulkner, Hemingway, Cather and Lawrence among the prose writers.’
  • ‘He was one of a quadrumvirate of Norwegians who developed much of the basis for modern econometrics.’
  • ‘Although power was divided among members in the quadrumvirate, the sharing was not even.’
  • ‘Cummings even had to ask the identity of the Irish member of the quadrumvirate, assuming at first it was Yeats.’

  Synonyms

  quartet, foursome, tetralogy, quadruplets