suite
[sweet or for 3 often, soot]
- a number of things forming a series or set.
- a connected series of rooms to be used together: a hotel suite.
- a set of furniture, especially a set comprising the basic furniture necessary for one room: a bedroom suite.
- a company of followers or attendants; a train or retinue.
- Music.
- an ordered series of instrumental dances, in the same or related keys, commonly preceded by a prelude.
- an ordered series of instrumental movements of any character.
- Computers. a group of software programs sold as a unit and usually designed to work together.
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Origin of suite
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Examples from the Web for suite
Contemporary Examples
When we get into his suite, he collapses on the couch and begins drinking tequila again.
In another black-and-white shot, they are boyishly sprawled on the rose-printed carpet of their suite, reading piles of fan mail.
Then there are a suite of tools that can operate at the kind of depth we're talking about, I believe between 4000-5000 meters.
James Cameron on How to Find Flight MH370, Climate Change, Leonardo DiCaprio, and MoreMarlow Stern
April 12, 2014
Also inside the suite was Peter Greste, an award-winning Australian correspondent who was working for the same network.
At the door a couple is entwined on the floor blocking my departure from the suite.
Historical Examples
"She is going to have part of my suite at Harlowe House," said Grace.
Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton CampusJessie Graham Flower
The Harlows wanted a suite, and they couldn't afford to take one.
It Happened in EgyptC. N. Williamson
I stopped a minute before entering the Prefect's suite of rooms.
My Double LifeSarah Bernhardt
They formed a suite of three apartments of very simple aspect.
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
Has he been enabled to travel in his suite as far as Venice?
Albert DurerT. Sturge Moore
suite
- a series of items intended to be used together; set
- a number of connected rooms in a hotel forming one living unitthe presidential suite
- a matching set of furniture, esp of two armchairs and a settee
- a number of attendants or followers
- music
- an instrumental composition consisting of several movements in the same key based on or derived from dance rhythms, esp in the baroque period
- an instrumental composition in several movements less closely connected than a sonata
- a piece of music containing movements based on or extracted from music already used in an opera, ballet, play, etc
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Word Origin
C17: from French, from Old French sieute; see suit
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Word Origin and History for suite
n.
1670s, "train of followers or attendants," from French suite, from Old French suite "act of following, attendance" (see suit). The meanings "set of instrumental compositions" (1680s), "connected set of rooms" (1716), and "set of furniture" (1805) were borrowed from French or re-spelled from suit on the French model.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
suite
[(sweet)]
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.
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