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suite

American  
[sweet, soot] / swit, sut /

noun

  1. a number of things forming a series or set.

  2. a connected series of rooms to be used together.

    a hotel suite.

  3. a set of furniture, especially a set comprising the basic furniture necessary for one room.

    a bedroom suite.

  4. a company of followers or attendants; a train or retinue.

  5. Music.

    1. an ordered series of instrumental dances, in the same or related keys, commonly preceded by a prelude.

    2. an ordered series of instrumental movements of any character.

  6. Computers. a group of software programs sold as a unit and usually designed to work together.

suite British  
/ swiːt /

noun

  1. a series of items intended to be used together; set

  2. a number of connected rooms in a hotel forming one living unit

    the presidential suite

  3. a matching set of furniture, esp of two armchairs and a settee

  4. a number of attendants or followers

  5. music

    1. an instrumental composition consisting of several movements in the same key based on or derived from dance rhythms, esp in the baroque period

    2. an instrumental composition in several movements less closely connected than a sonata

    3. a piece of music containing movements based on or extracted from music already used in an opera, ballet, play, etc

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
suite Cultural  

  1. A group of related pieces of music or movements played in sequence. In the baroque era, a suite was a succession of different kinds of dances. In more recent times, suites have contained excerpts from longer works, such as ballets, or have simply portrayed a scene, as in Ferde Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite.

Etymology

Origin of suite

1665–75; < French, apparently metathetic variant of Old French siute ( suit ); akin to sue, suitor

Example Sentences

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By the first of June, the Fox sisters were in residence at a suite of rooms in Barnum’s Hotel located at the corner of Broadway and Maiden Lane.

From Literature

“It’s a bit like a dreamscape,” Luhrmann, 63, says of the movie as he sits in a suite at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills near the end of a recent press junket.

From Los Angeles Times

Anthropic released a suite of AI tools at the start of the month that investors believe pose a threat to traditional software-as-a-service business models.

From Barron's

Layers of Western sanctions and a recent rash of ship seizures represent the toughest suite of measures brought to bear against the so-called shadow fleet of vessels smuggling illicit oil across the globe.

From The Wall Street Journal

The nearly 30,000-square-foot facility includes indoor basketball courts, a physical therapy suite and a state-of-the-art weight room overseen by a coach who previously trained collegiate athletes at Notre Dame and Stanford.

From The Wall Street Journal

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