suite
noun/swiːt/ · South-Asia /sjuːʈ/
Etymology Borrowed from Middle French suite. See also the doublet suit.
A group or train of attendants, servants etc.; a retinue.
- [A]s to men, we shall live altogether at the Duc de Romagnecourt's, his suite of servants will be ours.1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 259:
A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together.
- a suite of rooms
- a suite of minerals
2 more examples
- 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.1992, Rudolf M[athias] 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:
- 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,[…].1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
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.
Entertainment, Lifestyle, 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.
Entertainment, Lifestyle, 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.
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A group of related computer programs distributed together.
- Derived terms
- bedroom suite, bridal suite, consuite, cottage suite, C-suite, droit de suite, en-suite, en suite, garage suite, gifting suite, gift suite, granny suite, income suite, in-law suite, Jack and Jill suite, minisuite, nonsuite, secondary suite, suitelike, suitemate, three-piece suite
- Related terms
- ensuite
- Hyponyms
- bridal suite, office suite, test suite, validation suite, dance suite