suit
see also: Suit
Pronunciation Noun
Suit
Proper noun
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see also: Suit
Pronunciation Noun
suit (plural suits)
- 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.
- 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.
- (pejorative, slang, metonym) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
- 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.
- (legal) 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.
- 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.
- 1725, Alexander Pope, Odyssey (original by Homer)
- Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend,
Till this funereal web my labors end.
- Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend,
- 1725, Alexander Pope, Odyssey (original by Homer)
- (obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
- Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone.
- 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. - To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences.
- (obsolete) Regular order; succession.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Vicissitude of Things
- Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again.
- (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.)
- French: complet, costume, tailleur (for women), ensemble, tenue
- German: Anzug
- Italian: vestito, abito
- Portuguese: terno, traje, fato (Portugal)
- Russian: костю́м
- Spanish: traje, terno (Bolivia), vestido (Colombia), flux (Venezuela) (Dominican Republic), tacuche (Guatemala)
- French: combinaison
- Russian: костю́м
- French: costard
- German: Anzugträger
- French: enseigne, couleur
- German: Farbe
- Italian: seme, colore
- Portuguese: naipe
- Russian: ма́сть
- Spanish: palo
- French: suite
suit (suits, present participle suiting; past and past participle suited)
- (transitive) To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
- c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene ii]:
- Let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
- (said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item, transitive) To be suitable or apt for one's image.
- The ripped jeans didn't suit her elegant image.
- That new top suits you. Where did you buy it?
- (transitive)To be appropriate or apt for.
- The nickname "Bullet" suits her, since she is a fast runner.
- Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.
- Raise her notes to that sublime degree / Which suits song of piety and thee.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314 ↗, page 0029 ↗:
- “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
- (most commonly used in the passive form, intransitive) To dress; to clothe.
- c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene i]:
- So went he suited to his watery tomb.
- To please; to make content; to fit one's taste.
- He is well suited with his place.
- My new job suits me, as I work fewer hours and don't have to commute so much.
- (intransitive) To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with)
- The place itself was suiting to his care.
- 1713, Joseph Addison, Cato, published 1712, [Act 3, scene 1]:
- Give me not an office / That suits with me so ill.
- German: passen
- Russian: подходи́ть
- French: convenir
- Italian: andare a genio
- Russian: подходи́ть
- French: convenir
- German: passen
- Italian: aggiustarsi a
- Portuguese: convir, adequar-se a
- Spanish: convenir
Suit
Proper noun
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