Definitions for suit

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Spelling: [soot]

IPA: /sut/

Suit is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in suit (istu).

Definitions for suit

noun

1. a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
2. a set of men's garments of the same color and fabric, consisting of trousers, a jacket, and sometimes a vest.
3. a similarly matched set consisting of a skirt and jacket, and sometimes a topcoat or blouse, worn by women.
4. any costume worn for some special activity:
5. Often, suits. Slang. an executive, manager, or official, especially one regarded as a faceless decision maker.
6. Law. the act, the process, or an instance of suing in a court of law; legal prosecution; lawsuit.
7. Cards. one of the four sets or classes (spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs) into which a common deck of playing cards is divided. the aggregate of cards belonging to one of these sets held in a player's hand at one time: one of various sets or classes into which less common decks of cards are divided, as lances, hammers, etc., found in certain decks formerly used or used in fortune telling.
8. suite (defs 1–3, 5).
9. the wooing or courting of a woman:
10. the act of making a petition or an appeal.
11. a petition, as to a person of rank or station.
12. Also called set. Nautical. a complete group of sails for a boat.
13. one of the seven classes into which a standard set of 28 dominoes may be divided by matching the numbers on half the face of each: a three suit contains the 3-blank, 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 3-4, 3-5, and 3-6. Since each such suit contains one of each of the other possible suits, only one complete suit is available per game.

Idioms

1. follow suit, Cards. to play a card of the same suit as that led. to follow the example of another:
2. suit oneself, to do what one wants to do or what is best for oneself, without regard for others (often used imperatively):

Verb phrases

1. suit up, to dress in a uniform or special suit.

verb (used with object)

1. to make appropriate, adapt, or accommodate, as one thing to another:
2. to be appropriate or becoming to:
3. to be or prove satisfactory, agreeable, or acceptable to; satisfy or please:
4. to provide with a suit, as of clothing or armor; clothe; array.

verb (used without object)

1. to be appropriate or suitable; accord.
2. to be satisfactory, agreeable, or acceptable.

Origin of suit

1250-1300; Middle English siute, sute, suite (noun) Anglo-French, Old French, akin to sivre to follow. See sue, suite

Examples for suit

According to his suit, Carleton would rotate four new boys into his home every semester.

He was an athletic man, and the indolence of camp life did not suit him as it did Yates.

The pieces are near-identical, excepting the signature buttons on the Chanel suit and a few small tailoring details.

My reason is that I wish to have a son-in-law who will suit my wants.

He said, 'We make precedents in the West when we can't find one to suit us.'

"Some pretty cloak and suit models get big wages," said Cadge.

Those services will remain untouched by the current suit, according to City Attorney spokesman Frank Manteljan.

Being dapper is all about attention to detail, like sporting a perfectly tucked handkerchief in your suit pocket.

The subject is one which can be popularized to suit even such an audience.

When you get the kind of discharge I had, they give you a suit and fifty dollars.