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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Anglo-Norman siute, from Old French sieute (modern suite), originally a participle adjective from vulgar Latin *sequita (for Classical Latin secuta), from Latin sequi (“to follow”), because the component garments "follow each other", i.e. are worn together.

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /suːt/, SAMPA: /su:t/
• (US) IPA: /suːt/, /sjuːt/, SAMPA: /su:t/, sju:t/

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• Rhymes: -uːt

[edit] Noun

suit (plural suits)

1. A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers, or a similar outfit for a woman.

   Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding.

2. (by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boilersuit, protective suit
3. (pejorative, slang) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.

   Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a "surprise" visit to this department.

4. A full set of armour.
5. (law) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.

   If you take my advice, you'll file suit against him immediately.

6. (obsolete): The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
7. Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.

   Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end. —Alexander Pope.

8. The full set of sails required for a ship.
9. (card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.

   To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences. — William Cowper.

10. (obsolete) Regular order; succession.

    Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again. — Francis Bacon.

11. (obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.

    Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone. — Edmund Spenser.

12. (archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
13. (archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)

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[edit] See also

• (playing card suits) card suit, playing card suit; clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades ^{(Category: Card games) [edit]}

[edit] Translations

[edit] Verb

to suit (third-person singular simple present suits, present participle suiting, simple past and past participle suited)

1. To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word.
2. To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit.

   Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well. — John Dryden.

   Raise her notes to that sublime degree Which suits song of piety and thee. — Matthew Prior.

3. To dress; to clothe.

   So went he suited to his watery tomb. —Shakespeare.

4. To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one’s taste.
5. (intransitive): To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; — usually followed by with or to.

   The place itself was suiting to his care. — John Dryden.

   Give me not an office That suits with me so ill. — Joseph Addison.

[edit] Synonyms

• to agree: agree, match, answer

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[edit] Verb

suit

1. third-person singular present indicative form of suivre