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See also:Suit,sùit,andsüit

English

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A man in a three-piecesuit (noun sense 1) with abowler hat,glasses and anumbrella.

Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishsute, borrowed fromAnglo-Normansuite andOld Frenchsieute,siute (modernsuite), originally a participle adjective fromVulgar Latin*sequita (forsecūta), fromLatinsequi(“to follow”), because the component garments "follow each other", i.e. are worn together. See also the doubletsuite. Cognate withItalianseguire andSpanishseguir. Related tosue andsegue.

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Noun

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suit (pluralsuits)

  2. (clothing) A set ofclothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matchingjacket andtrousers (alsobusiness suit orlounge suit), or a similaroutfit for a woman.
    • 1963,Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, inThe China Governess: A Mystery, London:Chatto & Windus,→OCLC:
      A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent bluesuit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
    • 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8847:
      Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
    Nick hired a navy-bluesuit for the wedding.
  3. (by extension) Agarment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity:space suit,boiler suit, protective suit,swimsuit.
  4. (Pakistan, women's speech) Adress.
  5. (derogatory, slang, metonymic) A person who wearsmatching jacket and trousers, especially aboss or asupervisor.
    Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; thesuits are making a "surprise" visit to this department.
    • 1996,Ani DiFranco, “Napoleon”, inDilate:
      You had an army / Ofsuits behind you
    • 2016, A.K. Brown,Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page29:
      Two smartly dressedsuits walked up to the doctor. "Are you alright Dr. La Perouse?"
    • 2020,Emily Segal,Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books,→ISBN:
      Suits didn't wear suits any more—they wore Tibetan prayer beads coiled around their wrists. But they slithered in a suitlike way.
  6. A full set ofarmour.
  7. (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; alawsuit.
    Synonyms:litigation;see alsoThesaurus:lawsuit
    If you take my advice, you'll file asuit against him immediately.
  8. Petition,request,entreaty.
    • c.1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe],Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published1592,→OCLC; reprinted asTamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press,1973,→ISBN,Act II, scene iv:
      Tam[burlaine]. Are you the wittie King ofPerſea?
      Myc[etes]. I marrie am I: haue you anyſute to me?
      Tam[burlaine]. I woulde intreate you to ſpeake but three wiſe wordes.
  9. (obsolete) The act of following or pursuing;pursuit,chase.
  10. Pursuit of a love-interest;wooing,courtship.
  11. (obsolete) The act of suing; thepursuit of a particular object or goal.
  12. The full set of sails required for a ship.
  14. (card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by colour and/or specific emblems, such as thespades,hearts,diamonds, orclubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.
    • 1785,William Cowper,The Task:
      To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort
      Her mingledsuits and sequences.
  15. (obsolete) Regular order; succession.
    Every five and thirty years the same kind andsuit of weather comes again.
  16. (archaic) A company of attendants or followers; aretinue.
  17. (archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; asuite (of rooms etc.)

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Descendants

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  • → Kashubian:sut(Canada, United States)
  • → Swahili:suti

Translations

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set of clothes
garment suitable for a task
slang: person who wears matching jacket and trousers
full set of armour
attempt to gain an end by legal process—seelawsuit
pursuit, chase—seepursuit
pursuit of love interest—seecourtship
full set of sails
card games: set of cards distinguished by color and emblems
regular order; succession
act of suing; pursuit of a particular object or goal
company of attendants or followers—seeretinue
group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole

See also

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Suits in English ·suits (see also:cards,playing cards)(layout ·text)
heartsdiamondsspadesclubs

Verb

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suit (third-person singular simple presentsuits,present participlesuiting,simple past and past participlesuited)

  1. (transitive) To makeproper orsuitable; toadapt orfit.
  2. (transitive, said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item) To be suitable orapt for one's image.
    The ripped jeans didn'tsuit her elegant image.
    That new topsuits you. Where did you buy it?
  4. (transitive, figurative) To beappropriate orapt for.
    The nickname "Bullet"suits her, since she is a fast runner.
    • 1700,[John] Dryden, “Cymon and Iphigenia, fromBoccace”, inFables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […],→OCLC:
      Illsuits his cloth the praise of railing well.
    • c. 1700,Matthew Prior,epistle to Dr. Sherlock
      Raise her notes to that sublime degree / Whichsuits song of piety and thee.
    • 1910,Emerson Hough, chapter I, inThe Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC,page0029:
      “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mindsuited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
    • 1968,Fred Neil, “Everybody's Talkin'”, performed byHarry Nilsson:
      I'm going where the sun keeps shinin'[…] / Going where the weathersuits my clothes
  5. (most commonly used in the passive form, intransitive) To dress; to clothe.
  6. (intransitive, transitive) To please; to make content; to fit someone's (or one's own) taste.
    will build tosuit   [on for-sale signs marking vacant lots]
    He is wellsuited with his place.
    My new jobsuits me, as I work fewer hours and don't have to commute so much.
    When's itsuit you for me to call?
    • 2022 November 16, Nigel Harris, “Endless news... little context”, inRAIL, number970, page 3:
      This arrangementsuited everybody - right up until the moment that it suddenly didn't, when unions were able to point a loaded gun at management's head in any disputes.
  7. (intransitive) Toagree; to be fitted; tocorrespond (usually followed byto, archaically also followed bywith).
    Synonyms:agree,match,answer

Derived terms

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Translations

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to make proper or suitable
to be suitable or apt for one's image
to be appropriate or apt for
to dress; to clothe
to please, to make content
to agree, accord, be fitted to

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Finnish

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Verb

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suit

  1. second-personsingularpresentindicative ofsukia
  2. second-personsingularpastindicative ofsukia

Anagrams

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French

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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suit

  1. third-personsingularpresentindicative ofsuivre

Indonesian

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suit

  1. whistle

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Latin

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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suit

  1. third-personsingularpresentactiveindicative ofsuō

Norman

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishsuit.

Noun

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suit m (pluralsuits)

  1. (Jersey)suit(of clothes)
    Synonym:fa

Romanian

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Etymology

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Past participle ofsui.

Noun

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suit n (uncountable)

  1. climbing

Declension

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singular onlyindefinitedefinite
nominative-accusativesuitsuitul
genitive-dativesuitsuitului
vocativesuitule

Verb

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suit (past participle ofsui)

  1. pastparticiple ofsui
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