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Meaning of suit in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

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suit

/s(j)uːt/

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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.

    Example: Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding.
  • (by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit.

  • (metonym) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.

    Example: Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a "surprise" visit to this department.
  • A full set of armour.

  • 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.

    Example: If you take my advice, you'll file a suit against him immediately.
  • Obsolete The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.

  • Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.

  • The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.

  • The full set of sails required for a ship.

  • 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.

  • Regular order; succession.

    Example: Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again.
  • A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.

  • A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)


verb

  • To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.

  • (said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item) To be suitable or apt for one's image.

    Example: That new top suits you. Where did you buy it?
  • To be appropriate or apt for.

    Example: Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.
  • (most commonly used in the passive form) To dress; to clothe.

  • To please; to make content; to fit one's taste.

    Example: He is well suited with his place.
  • To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with)