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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024suit /sut/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Clothinga set of garments of the same color, material, or fabric, typically trousers or a skirt, a jacket, and sometimes a vest:She wore a dark suit for the interview.
- Clothinga set of clothing, armor, or the like intended for wear together.
- Clothingany costume or outfit worn for some special activity:a bathing suit.
- Law
- an act or instance of suing in a court of law;
a lawsuit.
- Gamesone of the classes into which cards or dominoes are divided, as spades, clubs, diamonds, and hearts.
v. - to make appropriate;
accommodate one thing to another:[~ + object]to suit the punishment to the crime. - to look good or attractive on:[~ + object* not: be + ~-ing;no passive]The color blue suits you very well.
- to be acceptable or agreeable to: [~ + object][not: be + ~-ing* no passive]The arrangements suit me just fine.[~ + oneself]If you don't want to go to the party, that's OK; suit yourself.
- to meet the requirements of:[~ + object* not: be + ~-ing;
no passive]Would an appointment next week suit your schedule? - Sport, Clothing suit up, to put an appropriate uniform or special suit on: [no object]The divers went in their locker room and suited up.[~ + up + object]The technicians suited up the astronauts.[~ + object + up]to suit them up.
Idioms- Idioms, Games follow suit:
- to play a card of the same suit as that led.
- to follow the example of another:Our competitors lowered computer prices, so we were forced to follow suit.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024suit (so̅o̅t),USA pronunciation n. - Clothinga set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- Clothinga set of men's garments of the same color and fabric, consisting of trousers, a jacket, and sometimes a vest.
- Clothinga similarly matched set consisting of a skirt and jacket, and sometimes a topcoat or blouse, worn by women.
- Clothingany costume worn for some special activity:a running suit.
- Slang Termsa business executive.
- Lawthe act, the process, or an instance of suing in a court of law;
legal prosecution;
lawsuit. - Games[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:Spades were his long suit.
- 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.
- Furnituresuite (defs. 1–3, 5).
- the wooing or courting of a woman:She rejected his suit.
- Lawthe act of making a petition or an appeal.
- a petition, as to a person of rank or station.
- Nautical, Naval TermsAlso called set. a complete group of sails for a boat.
- Gamesone 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.
- Games, Idioms follow suit:
- [Cards.]to play a card of the same suit as that led.
- to follow the example of another:The girl jumped over the fence, and her playmates followed suit.
v.t. - to make appropriate, adapt, or accommodate, as one thing to another:to suit the punishment to the crime.
- to be appropriate or becoming to:Blue suits you very well.
- to be or prove satisfactory, agreeable, or acceptable to;
satisfy or please:The arrangements suit me. - Clothingto provide with a suit, as of clothing or armor;
clothe;
array.
v.i. - to be appropriate or suitable;
accord. - to be satisfactory, agreeable, or acceptable.
- Sport, Clothing suit up, to dress in a uniform or special suit.
- Anglo-French, Old French, akin to sivre to follow. See sue, suite
- Middle English siute, sute, suite (noun, nominal) 1250–1300
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