suit
noun
1. 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
Definition categories: man–made, garment
2. 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
Similar word(s): case, cause, lawsuit
Definition categories: act, proceeding, proceedings
3. (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit
- all the suits care about is the bottom line
Definition categories: person, businessman
4. a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage)
Similar word(s): courting, courtship, wooing
Definition categories: communication, appeal, entreaty, prayer
5. a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank
Definition categories: communication, appeal, entreaty, prayer
6. 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?
Definition categories: man–made
Sentences with suit as a noun:
- Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding.
- Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a "surprise" visit to this department.
- If you take my advice, you'll file suit against him immediately.
- Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end. —Alexander Pope.
- To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences. — William Cowper.
- Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again. — Francis Bacon.
- Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone. — Edmund Spenser.
verb
1. be agreeable or acceptable to
- This suits my needs
Similar word(s): accommodate, fit
Definition categories: stative, fill, fit, fulfil, fulfill, meet, satisfy
2. be agreeable or acceptable
- This time suits me
Definition categories: stative, be
3. accord or comport with
- This kind of behavior does not suit a young woman!
Similar word(s): befit, beseem
Definition categories: stative, agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally
4. enhance the appearance of
- This behavior doesn't suit you!
Similar word(s): become
Definition categories: stative, beautify, embellish, fancify, prettify
Sentences with suit as a verb:
- The ripped jeans didn't suit her elegant image.
- That new top suits you. Where did you buy it?
- The nickname "Bullet" suits her, since she is a fast runner.
- My new job suits me, as I work fewer hours and don't have to commute so much.