suite

Borrowed from French suite. See also the doublet suit.

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• IPA^(key): /swiːt/
• Rhymes: -iːt
• Homophone: sweet
• Hyphenation: suite

suite (plural suites)

1. A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage

   the ambassador's suite

2. A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together

   a suite of rooms

   a suite of minerals

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page vii:

     Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess‎:

     The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].

3. A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access.

   The Presidential suite is well appointed and allows for good security.

4. (music) A musical form, popular before the time of the sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude.
5. (music) An excerpt of instrumental music from a larger work that contains other elements besides the music; for example, the Nutcracker Suite is the music (but not the dancing) from the ballet The Nutcracker, and the Carmen Suite is the instrumental music (but not the singing and dancing) from the opera Carmen.
6. (computing) A group of related computer programs distributed together.

• (computing): office suite, test suite
• (music): dance suite

• ensuite

• suite on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Tieus, etuis, use it, étuis

Borrowed from French suite.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʋi.tə/

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• Hyphenation: sui‧te
• Rhymes: -itə

suite f (plural suites)

1. suite (group of interconnected rooms)
2. (music) suite (music piece)

From Old French suite, from earlier siute, from Vulgar Latin *sequita, (instead of classical secūta), as the feminine past participle of *sequere, from Latin sequor, sequi.

• IPA^(key): /sɥit/

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suite f (plural suites)

1. result
2. sequel
3. next step, next steps, that which follows, remainder, rest
4. (poker) straight
5. (mathematics) sequence
6. suite (group of connected rooms)

• suivre

• “suite” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• étuis, situe, situé, usité

• suidhte (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /ˈsˠɪtʲə/

suite

1. fixed, secured
2. mounted
3. fast
4. located

• (fixed, secured): fosaitheach, feistithe, daingnithe
• (mounted): gléasta
• (fast): ceangailte

suite

1. genitive singular of suí

suite

1. past participle of suigh

suite

1. second-person plural present active imperative of suō

suite

1. Alternative form of sute

Borrowed from French suite.

suite m (definite singular suiten, indefinite plural suiter, definite plural suitene)

1. a suite (set of rooms)
2. a suite (music)
3. a suite (group of people in attendance)

• “suite” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from French suite.

suite m (definite singular suiten, indefinite plural suitar, definite plural suitane)

1. a suite (set of rooms)
2. a suite (music)
3. a suite (group of people in attendance)

• “suite” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From metathesis of earlier siute, sieute from Vulgar Latin *sequita, (instead of classical secūta), as the feminine past participle of *sequere, from Latin sequor, sequi.

suite f (oblique plural suites, nominative singular suite, nominative plural suites)

1. pursuit (act of pursuing)

• sivre

• English: suit (borrowed)
• French: suite
  • English: suite (borrowed)
    • Spanish: suite

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (sieute)
• siute on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Borrowed from French suite.

suite f (plural suites)

1. suite (rooms, hotel)