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suite

[ sweet soot ]

noun

  1. a number of things forming a series or set.
  2. a connected series of rooms to be used together:

    a hotel suite.

  3. a set of furniture, especially a set comprising the basic furniture necessary for one room:

    a bedroom suite.

  4. a company of followers or attendants; a train or retinue.
  5. Music.
    1. an ordered series of instrumental dances, in the same or related keys, commonly preceded by a prelude.
    2. an ordered series of instrumental movements of any character.
  6. Computers. a group of software programs sold as a unit and usually designed to work together.


suite

/ swiːt /

noun

  1. a series of items intended to be used together; set
  2. a number of connected rooms in a hotel forming one living unit

    the presidential suite

  3. a matching set of furniture, esp of two armchairs and a settee
  4. a number of attendants or followers
  5. music
    1. an instrumental composition consisting of several movements in the same key based on or derived from dance rhythms, esp in the baroque period
    2. an instrumental composition in several movements less closely connected than a sonata
    3. a piece of music containing movements based on or extracted from music already used in an opera, ballet, play, etc


suite

  1. A group of related pieces of music or movements played in sequence. In the baroque era, a suite was a succession of different kinds of dances. In more recent times, suites have contained excerpts from longer works, such as ballets , or have simply portrayed a scene, as in Ferde Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite .


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Word History and Origins

Origin of suite1

1665–75; < French, apparently metathetic variant of Old French siute ( suit ); akin to sue, suitor

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Word History and Origins

Origin of suite1

C17: from French, from Old French sieute; see suit

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Example Sentences

It’s important to preserve the full suite of wildlife, she says, and we’re trying, but it’s too early to celebrate their full comeback.

Rounding out the sensor suite, the Sense includes a temperature sensor that monitors your body’s temp regularly throughout the day and looks for notable changes, which might suggest you’re getting sick.

Large hotel suites can be a coolly intimate option, and I must add here, or so I’ve heard.

From Ozy

“The next wave will be about getting employees interested in coming back to the office,” says Sam Dunn, CEO and co-founder of Robin, a startup that recently launched a suite of digital tools for reopening work sites.

From Quartz

Shirley Weinstock, 91, lives in a studio suite at Jewish Home Family at Rockleigh, a senior residence in New Jersey, not far from Manhattan.

From Quartz

Once she arrived solo at his hotel suite, he drugged her and told her to chase it with a shot of amaretto.

I was literally on the 18th floor in a penthouse suite and I really thought about ending it.

She flew first class, stayed in a luxury penthouse suite and was given money for shopping along with her pay.

The executive suite has been the domain of the talls:  Barack Obama is six-one.

But here we are at a generic hotel suite in downtown Toronto.

You will follow the suite of my daughter to Spain, and you will become the bosom Counsellor of the wife of your Prince?

He said he wanted to enter the town with a suite of only 700 armed men, including his subordinate Dattos.

The victim said "nine," immersed in his paper again, studying that living room suite.

The first movement of the suite was entitled Pity, and the music flowed like melodious tears.

Said he came here in mistake, for a suite of rooms occupied by a man named Barlow?

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