suit
- Noun. 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.
- Noun. (by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit.
- Noun. (context, pejorative) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
- Noun. A full set of armour.
- Noun. (legal) 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.
- Noun. (sense, obsolete) The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
- Noun. Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
- Noun. The full set of sails required for a ship.
- Noun. (card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds(,) or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic(,) and French playing cards.
- Noun. (obsolete) Regular order; succession.
- Noun. (obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
- Noun. (archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
- Noun. (archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.).
- Verb. To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
- Verb. (context, said of clothes, hairstlye or other fashion item) To be suitable or apt for one's image.
- Verb. To be appropriate or apt for.
- Verb. (context, most commonly used in the passive form) To dress; to clothe.
- Verb. To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to fit one's taste.
- Verb. (intransitive) : To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; — usually followed by ''to'', archaically also followed by ''with''.
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