Suite

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A staff of attendants or followers; a retinue.
  • n. A group of related things intended to be used together; a set.
  • n. A set of matching furniture: a dining room suite.
  • n. A series of connected rooms used as a living unit.
  • n. Music An instrumental composition, especially of the 17th or 18th century, consisting of a succession of dances in the same or related keys.
  • n. Music An instrumental composition consisting of a series of varying movements or pieces.
  • n. Computer Science A group of software products packaged and sold together, usually having a consistent look and feel, a common installation, and shared macros.
  • n. Computer Science A group of procedures that work cooperatively: The TCP/IP suite of protocols includes FTP and Telnet.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as, the suite of an ambassador.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access.
  • n. a musical form, popular before the time of the sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude.
  • n. an excerpt of instrumental music from a larger work that contains other elements besides the music; for example, the Nutcracker Suite is the music (but not the dancing) from the ballet The Nutcracker, and the Carmen Suite is the instrumental music (but not the singing and dancing) from the opera Carmen.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage. See suit, n., 5.
  • n. A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or clessed together; a set. See Suit, n., 6.
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An obsolete form of suit (in various senses).
  • n. A company of attendants or followers; retinue; train: as, the suite of an ambassador.
  • n. A number of things taken collectively and constituting a sequence or following in a series; a set; a collection of things of like kind and intended to be used together: as, a suite of rooms; a suite of furniture.
  • n. A sequel.
  • n. In music, a set or series of instrumental dances, either in the same or in related keys, usually preceded by a prelude, and variously grouped so as to secure variety and contrast.
  • See suit.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a matching set of furniture
  • n. a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected
  • n. the group following and attending to some important person
  • n. apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)
  • Verb Form
    suites   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    flat    apartment   
    Cross Reference
    retinue   
    Variant
    suit   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Crete    Deet    Delete    Fleet    Grete    Marguerite    Pete    Piet    Seat    Skeat   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    apartment    bedroom    bathroom    library    lounge    residence    mansion    cabin    hotel    hallway