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Definitions of 'Suit' Wordnet 

1. (noun) suit, suit of clothes
a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color
"they buried him in his best suit"

2. (noun) lawsuit, suit, case, cause, causa
a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
"the family brought suit against the landlord"

3. (noun) suit
(slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit
"all the suits care about is the bottom line"

4. (noun) courtship, wooing, courting, suit
a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage)
"its was a brief and intense courtship"

5. (noun) suit
a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank

6. (verb) suit
playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color
"a flush is five cards in the same suit"; "in bridge you must follow suit"; "what suit is trumps?"

7. (verb) suit, accommodate, fit
be agreeable or acceptable to
"This suits my needs"

8. (verb) suit
be agreeable or acceptable
"This time suits me"

9. (verb) befit, suit, beseem
accord or comport with
"This kind of behavior does not suit a young woman!"

10. (verb) become, suit
enhance the appearance of
"Mourning becomes Electra"; "This behavior doesn't suit you!"


Definitions of 'Suit' Webster 1913 Dictionary 

1. (noun) Suit
the act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit

2. (noun) Suit
the act of suing; the process by which one endeavors to gain an end or an object; an attempt to attain a certain result; pursuit; endeavor

3. (noun) Suit
the act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship

4. (noun) Suit
the attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery

5. (noun) Suit
that which follows as a retinue; a company of attendants or followers; the assembly of persons who attend upon a prince, magistrate, or other person of distinction; -- often written suite, and pronounced sw/t

6. (noun) Suit
things that follow in a series or succession; the individual objects, collectively considered, which constitute a series, as of rooms, buildings, compositions, etc.; -- often written suite, and pronounced sw/t

7. (noun) Suit
a number of things used together, and generally necessary to be united in order to answer their purpose; a number of things ordinarily classed or used together; a set; as, a suit of curtains; a suit of armor; a suit of clothes

8. (noun) Suit
one of the four sets of cards which constitute a pack; -- each set consisting of thirteen cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades, cubs, or diamonds

9. (noun) Suit
regular order; succession

10. (verb) Suit
to fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word

11. (verb) Suit
to be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit

12. (verb) Suit
to dress; to clothe

13. (verb) Suit
to please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste

14. (verb) Suit
to agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; -- usually followed by with or to


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