suit

noun

1. 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.

   A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.

   Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

   Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding.

2. 2

   A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.

3. 3

   A dress.

4. 4

   slangA person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.

   Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a "surprise" visit to this department.

   You had an army / Of suits behind you

   Two smartly dressed suits walked up to the doctor. "Are you alright Dr. La Perouse?"

   Suits didn't wear suits any more—they wore Tibetan prayer beads coiled around their wrists. But they slithered in a suitlike way.

5. 5

   A full set of armour.

6. 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.

   If you take my advice, you'll file a suit against him immediately.

7. 7

   Petition, request, entreaty.

   Tam[burlaine]. Are you the wittie King of Perſea? Myc[etes]. I marrie am I: haue you any ſute to me? Tam[burlaine]. I woulde intreate you to ſpeake but three wiſe wordes.

8. 8

   obsoleteThe act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.

9. 9

   Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.

   Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end.

10. 10

    obsoleteThe act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.

    Thenceforth the suitt of earthly conquest shonne.

11. 11

    The full set of sails required for a ship.

12. 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.

    To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences.

13. 13

    obsoleteRegular order; succession.

    [object Object]

    Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again.

14. 14

    archaicA company of attendants or followers; a retinue.

15. 15

    archaicA group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)

    "You must wear these to-day, my dear child," said Lord Norbourne, as, entering the dressing-room of his daughter, he laid a suit of pearls on her table

verb

1. 1

   To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.

   but let your owne Diſcretion be your Tutor: Sute the Action to the Word, the Word to the Action,

2. 2

   To be suitable or apt for one's image.

   The ripped jeans didn't suit her elegant image.

   That new top suits you. Where did you buy it?

3. 3

   figurativeTo be appropriate or apt for.

   The nickname "Bullet" suits her, since she is a fast runner.

   Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.

   c. 1700, Matthew Prior, epistle to Dr. Sherlock Raise her notes to that sublime degree / Which suits song of piety and thee.

   “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

4. 4

   To dress; to clothe.

   So went he suited to his watery tomb.

5. 5

   To please; to make content; to fit someone's (or one's own) taste.

   will build to suit [on for-sale signs marking vacant lots]

   He is well suited with his place.

   My new job suits me, as I work fewer hours and don't have to commute so much.

   When's it suit you for me to call?

6. 6

   To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with).

   The place itself was suiting to his care.

   Give me not an office / That suits with me so ill.

Forms

plural

suits

past tense

suited

past participle

suited

present participle

suiting

third person singular

suits