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suite
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What does suite mean?
noun
- A group or train of attendants, servants etc.; a retinue.
- A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together.
- A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access.
More meanings (3)
noun
- 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.
- 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.
- A group of related computer programs distributed together.
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IPA pronunciation
/swit/
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Throughout that little suite could be heard but two sounds, the lugubrious strains of the concertina and the noise of stifled weeping.
The hussar cornet of Kutúzov’s suite who had mimicked the regimental commander, fell back from the carriage and rode up to Dólokhov.
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At the end of the suite, in the oratory, there was a detached alcove with a bed, for use in cases of hospitality.
And I was assigned to the royal suite of that flop house, which consisted of a cot with a mosquito bar over it.
Terah had been a high official at the court of Nimrod, and he was held in great consideration by the king and his suite.