Dictionary Definition
suit
Noun
1 a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a
court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy; "the
family brought suit against the landlord" [syn: lawsuit, case, cause, causa]
2 a set of garments (usually including a jacket
and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and
color; "they buried him in his best suit" [syn: suit of
clothes]
3 playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in
a pack; each set has its own symbol and color; "a flush is five
cards in the same suit"; "in bridge you must follow suit"; "what
suit is trumps?"
4 a businessman dressed in a business suit; "all
the suits care about is the bottom line"
5 a man's courting of a woman; seeking the
affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage); "its was
a brief and intense courtship" [syn: courtship, wooing, courting]
6 a petition or appeal made to a person of
superior status or rank
Verb
1 be agreeable or acceptable to; "This suits my
needs" [syn: accommodate, fit]
2 be agreeable or acceptable; "This time suits
me"
4 enhance the appearance of; "Mourning becomes
Electra"; "This behavior doesn't suit you!" [syn: become]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
siute, from sieute (modern suite), originally a participle adjective from vulgar Latin *sequita, from Latin sequi ‘follow’.Pronunciation
- suːt
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- Rhymes: -uːt
Noun
- 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 suit against him immediately.
- italbrac-colon obsolete The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
- The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object
or goal.
- Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone. —Spenser.
- Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
- Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end. —Pope.
- 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.)
- The full set of sails required for a ship.
- A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's
matching jacket and trousers, or a similar outfit for a woman.
- Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding.
- In the context of "pejorative|slang": 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.
- 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. —Cowper.
- Regular order; succession.
- Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again. —Bacon.
Derived terms
- birthday suit
- bring suit
- follow suit
- out of suits
- shell suit
- suit and service
- suit broker
- suit court
- suit covenant
- suit custom
- suit service
- suitcase
- swimsuit
- tracksuit
- zoot suit
Translations
(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.
- Spanish: proceso judicial.
suit of clothes
- Arabic: (bádla)
- Chinese: 套裝 (tàozhuāng)
- Czech: oblek
- Dutch: kostuum
- Finnish: puku, kävelypuku
- French: complet
- German: Anzug
- Hebrew: חליפה (halifa)
- Hungarian: öltöny
- Icelandic: jakkaföt
- Italian: vestito
- Japanese: 洋服一そろい (ようふくひとそろい, yōfuku hitosoroi)
- Korean: 양복 (yangbok)
- Portuguese: terno
- Romanian: costum
- Russian: костюм
- Spanish: traje , terno , vestido , flux , tacuche
- Swedish: kostym
card game category
- Czech: barva
- French: enseigne
- Portuguese: naipe
- Swedish: färg, svit
Verb
- To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word. —Shak.
- To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit.
- Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well. —Dryden.
- Raise her notes to that sublime degree Which suits song of piety and thee. —Prior.
- Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well. —Dryden.
- To dress; to clothe.
- So went he suited to his watery tomb. —Shak.
- To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one’s taste.
- : To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; — usually
followed by with or to.
- The place itself was suiting to his care. —Dryden.
- Give me not an office That suits with me so ill. —Addison.
- The place itself was suiting to his care. —Dryden.
Translations
to be fitted to
- Czech: vyhovovat
- French: convenir
- German: passen
- Spanish: convenir
to please, to make content
- French: convenir
French
Verb
suit- third-person singular present indicative form of suivre
Extensive Definition
Suit is a term with various meanings:
- A lawsuit, an action brought before a court, as to recover a right or redress a grievance.
- Suit (clothing), a combination of clothing, such as a jacket and matching trousers,
- Environmental suit, a piece of clothing used for a particular activity or in a particular environment, for example a space suit or diving suit.
- Jumpsuit, catsuit, wetsuit, or swimsuit, a one-piece outfit.
- Suit (cards), one of four categories into which a deck of cards is divided.
- Slang for a professional, The Establishment, management or government employee, because they wear a suit (clothing). Used pejoratively by Beats, artists, and hackers to refer to anyone in a position of authority.
- Suit (album), the name of one of rapper Nelly's 2004 albums.
- Suits, the third album by Fish.
- Suit (comic), a fictional character in the Marvel universe, appearing first in the Venom series.
- SUIT is an acronym for Sight Unit Infantry Trilux - an optical weapon sight used by the British Army in the 70s and 80s.
suit in Simple English: Suit
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Kyrie
Eleison, Paternoster, accommodate, accommodate
with, accord, accouter, accusal, accusation, accusing, action, adapt, adapt to, addresses, adjuration, adjust, adjust to, agree with,
aid prayer, allegation, allegement, amorous pursuit,
answer, appeal, application, arraignment, asking, assimilate to, attune, battery, be OK, be guided by,
beadroll, beads, become, befit, bend, benefit, beseechment, bib and tucker,
bid, bidding prayer, bill of
particulars, blame,
block, breviary, bringing of charges,
bringing to book, business suit, call, canvass, capacitate, caparison, case, casual suit, cause, cause in court, chaplet, charge, check, check out, chime in with,
clamor, clothes, clothing, collect, combination, communion, complaint, comply, comply with, compose, condition, conform, conform to, contemplation, correct, correspond, costume, count, court, courting, courtship, cry, delation, denouncement, denunciation, devotions, discipline, disguise, do, do the job, double-breasted suit,
dress, enable, enhance, ensemble, entreaty, equip, fall in with, fill the
bill, fit, fit out, follow, frock, furnish, gallantry, garb, gear to, gee, go, go by, go with, grace, gratify, habit, harmonize, harmonize with, hit
the spot, impeachment, impetration, implication, imploration, imploring, imprecation, imputation, indictment, information, innuendo, insinuation, intercession, invocation, invocatory plea,
jibe, judicial process,
jump suit, kit, lawsuit, laying of charges,
legal action, legal case, legal proceedings, legal process, legal
remedy, litany, litigation, livery, make conform, masquerade, meditation, meet, mold, obsecration, observe, obtestation, orison, outfit, pack, petition, plaint, plea, please, prayer, prayer wheel, proceeding, proceedings, process, prosecution, put in trim,
put in tune, quadrate,
qualify, reconcile, rectify, relate, reproach, request, requesting, riding habit,
rig, rig out, rig up,
rogation, rosary, rub off corners, satisfy, separates, serenade, series, serve, set, settle, shape, shirtwaist suit, silent
prayer, single-breasted suit, ski suit, solicitation, soliciting, sports suit,
square, straighten, suffice, suing, suit at law, suite, supplication, tailor, tailored suit, tally, tally with, taxing, thanks, thanksgiving, trial, tropical suit, true bill,
tune, turn out, two-piece
suit, uniform, unspoken
accusation, veiled accusation, wooing, yield