suite

  1. Noun.  A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as, the suite of an ambassador.
  2. Noun.  A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together; a set; as, a suite of rooms; a suite of minerals.
  3. Noun.  A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access.
  4. Noun.  One of the old musical forms, before the time of the more compact sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude. Some composers of the present day affect the suite form.

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