suite

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See also: Suite, suíte, and Suitë

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French suite. See also the doublet suit.

Pronunciation

Noun

suite (plural suites)

  1. A group or train of attendants, servants etc.; a retinue.
    • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 259:
      s to men, we shall live altogether at the Duc de Romagnecourt's, his suite of servants will be ours.
  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, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, 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: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      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.

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French suite.

Noun

suite f (plural suites)

  1. suite (connected rooms in a hotel)
  2. suite (music piece)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French suite.

Pronunciation

Noun

suite f (plural suites)

  1. suite (group of interconnected rooms)
  2. (music) suite (music piece)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French suite, from earlier siute, from Vulgar Latin *sequita, (instead of classical secūta), as the feminine past participle of *sequere, from Latin sequi.

Pronunciation

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)

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Descendants

Further reading

Anagrams

Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Adjective

suite

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

Synonyms

Noun

suite

  1. genitive singular of suí

Participle

suite

  1. past participle of suigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of suite
radical lenition eclipsis
suite shuite
after an, tsuite 		not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Japanese

Romanization

suite

  1. Rōmaji transcription of すいて

Latin

Verb

suite

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of suō

Middle English

Noun

suite

  1. Alternative form of sute

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

Borrowed 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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed 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

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From metathesis of earlier siute, sieute from Vulgar Latin *sequita, (instead of classical secūta), as the feminine past participle of *sequere, from Latin sequor, sequi.

Noun

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

  1. pursuit (act of pursuing)

Descendants

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Portuguese

Noun

suite f (plural suites)

  1. (European Portuguese spelling) Alternative form of suíte

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French suite.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈswite/
  • Rhymes: -ite
  • Syllabification: sui‧te

Noun

suite f (plural suites)

  1. suite (rooms, hotel)

Further reading

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