1A set of rooms designated for one person's or family's use or for a particular purpose.

1. 1.1 A set of coordinating furniture.
   there is plenty of space for a dining table and a three-piece suite

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   • A star attraction was a bedroom suite designed by Royal furniture maker David Linley which sold for £19,200.
   • It was equipped with a chimneypiece and once had a suite of rustic furniture.
   • For those who came of age with Habitat, he offered alternatives to the dreaded three-piece suites, armchairs with antimacassars and standard lamps with tasselled shades.
   • With this it purchased some new furnishings, including a suite of furniture and bed mattresses.
   • Travel furniture from chairs, tables and bookcases to bedroom suites, was in much demand in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
   • Many of the furniture suites and individual items are imported but for the past twenty years, the Cane Shop has also manufactured a range of its own pieces.
   • The Leather Sofa Company is now the premier arena in the South East for leather sofas, suites, armchairs, recliners and the new vogue - suede and leather cube poufs.
   • In one corner there is a suite of furniture grouped around a stylish coffee table and state-of-the-art television, with a screen that would not be out of place in any Cineplex.
   • Paul Highsmith said the rubbish outside his premises was not his and that people continued to dump items such as beds, furniture suites and other household waste.
   • If you ordered the suite of furniture in response to an advertisement in Ireland, the Irish courts have jurisdiction over the matter.
   • As well as providing a top class upholstery service they also supply sofas, couches, arm chairs and suites made to the customer specifications.
   • Originally part of a suite of furniture that included ten armchairs, it is now the only surviving one from the group.
   • In this exhibition, Shed Sutra, Andrew has made a suite of furniture from recycled materials that explore the role of tools in the creative process.
   • There are satellite dishes, suites of furniture for sale on the pavements, brightly lit shops selling everything.
   • The family's purchases from Courts in Staples Corner, London, included a dining table and four chairs, a coffee table, a lamp table, a three-piece suite and a bed.
   • An example is the suite of ebonized furniture he made for John Taylor Johnston about 1860.
   • These included five TV sets, two luxurious lounge suits, two plush dining room suites, an executive bedroom suite and artworks.
   • In Victorian times, by contrast, even mid-level officers began to take whole suites of campaign furniture with them.
   • The gallery still houses one of the finest surviving suites of Regency giltwood furniture made to commemorate Lord Nelson and his victories.
   • There is space for a three-piece suite and work desk, so the room could be used as a family room or study.

2Music
A set of instrumental compositions, originally in dance style, to be played in succession.

1. 2.1 A set of selected pieces from an opera or musical, arranged to be played as one instrumental work.
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   • One of the focal pieces of the performance will be a suite by young Grahamstown composer Gareth Walwyn, in commemoration of Youth Day - 16 June.
   • This is followed by Respighi's The Birds, an orchestral suite which took wing on the basis of pieces written by other composers.
   • You come away from the recording of these two complete suites with great respect for the young Frenchman's musicality and technical facility.
   • The programme will be something of a surprise comprising of a fantasy by Telemann, a suite or partita by Bach and Barry Guy's ‘Inachis’.
   • Prokofiev fashioned a suite of six pieces resembling a classical divertimento, but one laced with dissonances, evoking Stravinsky's Octet.
   • All sections are given titles, as though the composer had envisaged the work as a suite of character pieces.
   • Her idea was to rearrange the songs into a suite of contemporary classical arrangements that could be performed by a modernist chamber orchestra.
   • Now with a new CD of his orchestral music, including a 1996 orchestral suite at opus 231, some idea of his industry is apparent.
   • He finished most of the rest (including the original piano piece) as an orchestral suite during the Thirties.
   • He encroached on such EMI memorabilia as Menuhin in the Elgar concerto, Artur Schnabel in the Beethoven sonatas and Casals in the Bach suites, which had never fallen out of print.
   • And as a godless agnostic/atheist I always have the strongest reaction to the final piece in the suite, Neptune, The Mystic.
   • Though they were written for different instrumental combinations, and four separate performing groups, Lang has combined the pieces into a suite.
   • Spring Songs, the little suite of five pieces for treble recorder that opens this disc, lives up to its title.
   • The late musicologist Christopher Palmer tried to promote this score by arranging a suite from it.
   • The beginning, end, and main notes of a musical suite are determined by the maqam.
   • They reshape the festive polyrhythms of a village, a street sound, a rhythm-and-blues tune, or a folk melody into solos, suites, and symphonies.
   • The CD contains a short string quartet movement, a suite of four pieces for brass quintet, and solo pieces for piano, trombone, and cello.
   • It is interpolated from two of his suites for orchestra.
   • In the second half of the concert, the symphonic suite Carelia by Jean Sibelius and Symphony No.4 in d-moll by Robert Schumann were performed.
   • In any case, there are more compelling - musical - reasons why the suite, as Holst conceived it, stands alone.

3A group of people in attendance on a monarch or other person of high rank.

4Computing
A set of programs with a uniform design and the ability to share data.

5Geology
A group of minerals, rocks, or fossils occurring together and characteristic of a location or period.