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suit
/sut/
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What does suit mean?
noun
- 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.
- A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.
- A dress.
More meanings (19)
noun
- A full set of armour.
- 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.
- Petition, request, entreaty.
- Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
- The full set of sails required for a ship.
- 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.
- (derogatory, slang) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
- (obsolete) The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
- (obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
- (obsolete) Regular order; succession.
- (archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
- (archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)
verb
- To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
- To be suitable or apt for one's image.
- (figuratively) To be appropriate or apt for.
- To dress; to clothe.
- To please; to make content; to fit someone's (or one's own) taste.
- To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with).
proper noun
- A surname.
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Were it not better, Because that I am more than common tall, That I did suit me all points like a man?
Posters announcing THE RETURN OF TARZAN showed a kind of third chapter of Genesis scene with an Eve in a sports suit.
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“I shouldn’t mind being in a red coat—or dark blue, that would suit me better—if they didn’t boss me about too much.”
“It is for you to say whom you want with you. As I say, all that can be arranged to suit yourself.”
Now and again we passed a leiter-wagon--the ordinary peasant’s cart--with its long, snake-like vertebra, calculated to suit the inequalities of the road.