suite

Meaning

1. A group or train of attendants, servants etc.; a retinue.
2. A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together.
3. A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. A group of related computer programs distributed together.

Synonyms

retinue

entourage

train

🚋

rooms

apartment

set

cortege

accompaniment

sequence

company

chaperon

chapter

concatenation

division

equipment

flat

followers

following

furniture

kit

lodging

materiel

nest

nexus

pack

party

🥳

quarters

rout

run

series

servant

streak

string

🪢

subsequence

succession

suit

suite of rooms

troupe

partita

program package

subsequency

assistant

attendance

attendant

attendants

batch

battery

🔋

block

cascade

chambers

Pronounced as (IPA)

/swiːt/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French suite. See also the doublet suit.