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suit

Pronunciation: /sjuːt/

The English word “suit” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.
  2. A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.
  3. A dress.
  4. A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
  5. A full set of armour.
  6. 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.
  7. Petition, request, entreaty.
  8. The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
  9. Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
  10. The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
  11. The full set of sails required for a ship.
  12. Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by colour and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.
  13. Regular order; succession.
  14. A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
  15. A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)

verb

  1. To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
  2. To be suitable or apt for one's image.
  3. To be appropriate or apt for.
  4. To dress; to clothe.
  5. To please; to make content; to fit someone's (or one's own) taste.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English sute, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suite, from metathesis of earlier Old French siute, from Vulgar Latin *sequita, from *sequere, from sequor, sequi, from Proto-Italic *sekʷōr, from Proto-Indo-European *sékʷetor, from *sekʷ-. Doublet of suite. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Related to sue and segue.

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