Definitions and meaning of suit
suit
English
Etymology
From Middle English sute, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suite and Old French sieute, siute (modern suite), originally a participle adjective from Vulgar Latin *sequita (for secūta), from Latin sequi (“to follow”), because the component garments "follow each other", i.e. are worn together. See also the doublet suite. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Related to sue and segue.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /suːt/
- (Conservative RP) IPA(key): /sjuːt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /sut/
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /sʉt/
- (Wales) IPA(key): /sɪu̯t/
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- Rhymes: -uːt
- Homophone: soot (foot-goose merger, yod-dropping)
Noun
suit (plural suits)
- (clothing) 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, metonymic) 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 colour and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.
- (obsolete) Regular order; succession.
- 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.)
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Related terms
Descendants
- → Kashubian: sut (Canada, United States)
- → Swahili: suti
Translations
See also
Verb
suit (third-person singular simple present suits, present participle suiting, simple past and past participle suited)
- (transitive) To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
- (transitive, said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item) To be suitable or apt for one's image.
- (transitive, figurative) To be appropriate or apt for.
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- c. 1700, Matthew Prior, epistle to Dr. Sherlock
- Raise her notes to that sublime degree / Which suits song of piety and thee.
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- (most commonly used in the passive form, intransitive) To dress; to clothe.
- (intransitive, transitive) To please; to make content; to fit someone's (or one's own) taste.
- (intransitive) To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with).
- Synonyms: agree, match, answer
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- ITUs, Situ, TUIs, Tsui, UTIs, Uist, iust, situ, tuis, utis
Finnish
Verb
suit
- second-person singular present indicative of sukia
- second-person singular past indicative of sukia
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɥi/
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- Homophones: çui, suis
- Rhymes: -ɥi
Verb
suit
- third-person singular present indicative of suivre
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈsu.ɪt]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsuː.it̪]
Verb
suit
- third-person singular present active indicative of suō
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from English suit.
Noun
suit m (plural suits)
- (Jersey) suit (of clothes)
- Synonym: fa
Romanian
Etymology
Past participle of sui.
Noun
suit n (uncountable)
- climbing
Declension
Verb
suit (past participle of sui)
- past participle of sui
Source: wiktionary.org