suit
IPA: sˈut
noun
- 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.
- (by extension) A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.
- (Pakistan, women's speech) a dress.
- (derogatory, slang, metonymically) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
- A full set of armour.
- (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.
- Petition, request, entreaty.
- (obsolete) The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
- Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
- (obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
- The full set of sails required for a ship.
- (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.
- (obsolete) Regular order; succession.
- (archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
- (archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
- (said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item, transitive) To be suitable or apt for one's image.
- (transitive) To be appropriate or apt for.
- (most commonly used in the passive form, intransitive) To dress; to clothe.
- To please; to make content; to fit one's taste.
- (intransitive) To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with)
Advertisement
Examples of "suit" in Sentences
- I bought a set of suit.
- The suit was tailored for him.
- It was specially designed suit for him.
- A 'panoply' is a complete suit of armour.
- Auctioneer is part of the CivicSource suite.
- It is the first part of the The Emigrants suite.
- The buttons on the right of the suit have numerous functions.
- The highest bidder earns the right to declare the trump suit.
- The suit is loosely fitting and the pants attach to the shirt.
- The suit is sealed so that frigid water cannot penetrate the suit.
Advertisement
Advertisement