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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a series of four related works (plays or operas or novels)

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -gies) Etymology: Greek tetralogia, from tetra- + -logia -logy Date: 1656 1. a group of four dramatic pieces presented consecutively on the Attic stage at the Dionysiac festival 2. a series of four connected works (as operas or novels)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 a group of four related literary or operatic works. 2 Gk Antiq. a trilogy of tragedies with a satyric drama.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tetralogy Te*tral"o*gy, n. [Gr. ?; te`tra- (see Tetra-) + ? a speech, discourse: cf. F. t['e]tralogie.] (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. Note: A group or series of three tragedies, exhibited together without a fourth piese, was called a trilogy.