suit
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
card-games
clothing
fashion
games
law
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
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.
Inflected forms:
form: suits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: suits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: suiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: suited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: suited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding.
gloss: A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A dress.
pos: noun
tags: Pakistan
gloss: A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
metonymically
slang
examples: Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a "surprise" visit to this department.
You had an army / Of suits behind you
Two smartly dressed suits walked up to the doctor. "Are you alright Dr. La Perouse?"
Suits didn't wear suits any more—they wore Tibetan prayer beads coiled around their wrists. But they slithered in a suitlike way.
gloss: A full set of armour.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: If you take my advice, you'll file a suit against him immediately.
gloss: Petition, request, entreaty.
pos: noun
examples: Tam[burlaine]. Are you the wittie King of Perſea?
Myc[etes]. I marrie am I: haue you any ſute to me?
Tam[burlaine]. I woulde intreate you to ſpeake but three wiſe wordes.
gloss: The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
pos: noun
examples: Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend,
 Till this funereal web my labors end.
gloss: The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Thenceforth the suitt of earthly conquest shonne.
gloss: The full set of sails required for a ship.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort
Her mingled suits and sequences.
gloss: Regular order; succession.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again.
gloss: A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: "You must wear these to-day, my dear child," said Lord Norbourne, as, entering the dressing-room of his daughter, he laid a suit of pearls on her table
gloss: To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: but let your owne Diſcretion be your Tutor: Sute the Action to the Word, the Word to the Action,
gloss: To be suitable or apt for one's image.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The ripped jeans didn't suit her elegant image.
That new top suits you. Where did you buy it?
gloss: To be appropriate or apt for.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: The nickname "Bullet" suits her, since she is a fast runner.
Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.
c. 1700, Matthew Prior, epistle to Dr. Sherlock
Raise her notes to that sublime degree / Which suits song of piety and thee.
“[…] 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.”
I'm going where the sun keeps shinin' […] / Going where the weather suits my clothes
gloss: To dress; to clothe.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: So went he suited to his watery tomb.
gloss: To please; to make content; to fit someone's (or one's own) taste.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: will build to suit   [on for-sale signs marking vacant lots]
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.
When's it suit you for me to call?
This arrangement suited everybody - right up until the moment that it suddenly didn't, when unions were able to point a loaded gun at management's head in any disputes.
gloss: To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The place itself was suiting to his care.
Give me not an office / That suits with me so ill.
Related words: prosecute
suitable
suite
Derived words: Adeli suit
airsuit
all over one like a cheap suit
amicable suit
anti-g suit
antisuit
bathing suit
battlesuit
besuit
BIG suit
biosuit
birthday suit
birthday-suit
bitchsuit
blue suit
bodysuit
bondage suit
bring suit
bunny suit
Buster Brown suit
catsuit
chemical suit
chem suit
civil suit
class suit
combat armor suit
combat armour suit
countersuit
cut one's cloth to suit one's purse
cybersuit
demob suit
diapersuit
dinner suit
ditto suit
diving-suit
dress suit
drysuit
empty suit
enviro-suit
established suit
exosuit
fat suit
fatsuit
firesuit
fold like a cheap suit
follow suit
friendly suit
fullsuit
fursuit
ghillie suit
giggle suit
gimp suit
goon suit
gorilla suit
gravity suit
G-suit
gymsuit
half-suit
hardsuit
hazmat suit
hosesuit
ice-cream suit
immersion suit
jump suit
jumpsuit
law suit
leisure suit
long suit
major suit
man-o'-war suit
Mao suit
meatsuit
minor suit
missuit
monkey suit
monosuit
morning suit
murrsuit
NBC suit
nightsuit
Noddy suit
nonsuit
non-suit
Norfolk suit
Nudie suit
offsuit
out of suits
oversuit
pants-suit
pants suit
pantsuit
pant suit
paternity suit
penguin suit
permasuit
playsuit
plushsuit
poopy suit
power suit
pram suit
pressure suit
presuit
pumpkin suit
quad suit
rainsuit
reverse bunny suit
romper suit
safari suit
sailor suit
Santa suit
sauna suit
shell-suit
shooting suit
siren suit
skeleton suit
skinsuit
skirt suit
slack suit
sleeping suit
sleepsuit
snapsuit
snowsuit
soup-and-fish suit
strike suit
strong suit
suitability
suit and service
suit and tie
suit broker
suitcase
suitcoat
suit costs
suit court
suit covenant
suit custom
suiter
suit jacket
suitless
suitlike
suitlock
suitmaker
suitmaking
suit of armor
suit of armour
suit of dittoes
suitport
suit service
sunsuit
survival suit
sweatsuit
swimsuit
tank suit
three-piece suit
tiddly suit
track suit
trouser suit
turtle suit
undersuit
union suit
unsuit
warsuit
wetsuit
wet suit
wingsuit
wondersuit
zuit suit
suit down to the ground
suited and booted
suit one's book
suit oneself
suit the action to the word
suit up
suit yourself
unsuited
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