suite

Etymology

Borrowed from French suite. See also suit.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /swiːt/
• Rhymes: -iːt
• Homophone: sweet
• Hyphenation: suite

Noun

suite (plural suites)

1. A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage

   the ambassador's suite

2. A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together

   a suite of rooms

   a suite of minerals

   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii

     Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess‎:

     The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].

3. A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access.

   The Presidential suite is well appointed and allows for good security.

4. (music) A musical form, popular before the time of the sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude.
5. (music) An excerpt of instrumental music from a larger work that contains other elements besides the music; for example, the Nutcracker Suite is the music (but not the dancing) from the ballet The Nutcracker, and the Carmen Suite is the instrumental music (but not the singing and dancing) from the opera Carmen.
6. (computing) A group of related computer programs distributed together.

References

• suite on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Tieus, etuis, use it, étuis

Etymology

From Old French sieute, from Vulgar Latin *sequita, from Latin sequor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɥit/

• audio (la suite)

  (file)

Noun

suite f (plural suites)

1. result
2. sequel
3. next step, next steps, that which follows, remainder, rest
4. (poker) straight
5. (mathematics) sequence
6. suite (group of connected rooms)

Further reading

• “suite” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• étuis, situe, situé, usité

Alternative forms

• suidhte (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsˠɪtʲə/

Adjective

suite

1. fixed, secured
2. mounted
3. fast
4. located

Noun

suite

1. genitive singular of suí

Participle

suite

1. past participle of suigh

Mutation

Verb

suite

1. second-person plural present active imperative of suō

Etymology

From French suite

Noun

suite m (definite singular suiten, indefinite plural suiter, definite plural suitene)

1. a suite (set of rooms)
2. a suite (music)
3. a suite (group of people in attendance)

References

• “suite” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

From French suite

Noun

suite m (definite singular suiten, indefinite plural suitar, definite plural suitane)

1. a suite (set of rooms)
2. a suite (music)
3. a suite (group of people in attendance)

References

• “suite” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin secūta.

Noun

suite f (oblique plural suites, nominative singular suite, nominative plural suites)

1. pursuit (act of pursuing)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (sieute)
• siute on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Etymology

Borrowed from French suite.

Noun

suite f (plural suites)

1. suite (rooms, hotel)