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)
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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.

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