suit

Meaning

Noun

1. 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.
2. (broadly) A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.
3. (Pakistan) A dress.
4. (derogatory, metonymically, slang) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
5. A full set of armour.
6. 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.
7. Petition, request, entreaty.
8. (obsolete) The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
9. Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
10. (obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
11. The full set of sails required for a ship.
12. 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.
13. (obsolete) Regular order; succession.
14. (archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
15. (archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)

Verb

1. (transitive) To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
2. (transitive) To be suitable or apt for one's image.
3. (figuratively, transitive) To be appropriate or apt for.
4. (intransitive) To dress; to clothe.
5. (intransitive, transitive) To please; to make content; to fit someone's (or one's own) taste.
6. (intransitive) To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with).

Synonyms

fit

match

befit

lawsuit

become

costume

dress

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set

suitable

outfit

attire

action

agree

go with

appropriate

uniform

case

accommodate

petition

array

be suitable

beseem

courtship

clothing

clothe

clothes

complaint

wooing

wear

harmonize

request

entreaty

like

be appropriate

garb

suit of clothes

apply

cause

be fit for

satisfy

adjust

serve

do

please

appeal

convenient

prosecution

color

agree with

causa

Translations

traje

Anzug

complet

abito

convenir

vestito

Farbe

passen

costume

αγωγή

traje

vestit

👗

procès

couleur

naipe

Pronounced as (IPA)

/suːt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: sute

Cognate with Italian: seguire

Cognate with Spanish: seguir

In summary

From Middle English sute, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suite and Old French sieute, siute (modern suite), originally a participle adjective from Vulgar Latin *sequita (for secūta), from Latin sequi (“to follow”), because the component garments "follow each other", i.e. are worn together. See also the doublet suite. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Related to sue and segue.

Sentences

Does that suit you ?

That same year , the post office name followed suit .