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Suit

noun

1.

A set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color. Synonym: suit of clothes.

2.

A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy. Synonyms: case, causa, cause, lawsuit.

3.

(slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit.

4.

A man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage). Synonyms: courting, courtship, wooing.

5.

A petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank.

6.

Playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color. "In bridge you must follow suit" , "What suit is trumps?"

verb

(past & past part. suited; pres. part. suiting)

1.

Be agreeable or acceptable to. Synonyms: accommodate, fit.

2.

Be agreeable or acceptable.

3.

Accord or comport with. Synonyms: befit, beseem.

4.

Enhance the appearance of. Synonym: become. "This behavior doesn't suit you!"

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"Suit" Quotes from Famous Books

... old lady—was the driver; and the spirited proprietor, knowing Mr. Barker's qualifications, appointed him to the vacant office of cad on the very first application. The buss began to run, and Mr. Barker entered into a new suit of clothes, and on a new sphere ...

— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens

... of "Matthew" to quote just so much of the "prophecy" as served his purpose, leaving out that which altered its whole meaning. After these specimens, we are not surprised to find that—unable to find a prophecy fit to twist to suit his object—our evangelist quietly invents one, and (verse 23) uses a prophecy which has no existence in what was "spoken by the prophets." It is needless to go through all the other passages known as Messianic prophecies, for they may all be dealt with as above; the guiding rule ...

— The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. - Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History • Annie Besant

... after the first of July. The bobolink is one of the first to leave us, though he does not start at once on his long journey. By that time his little folk are full grown, and can take care of themselves, and he is getting on his winter suit, or moulting. ...

— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry

... Smith, "as soon as maybe we sail for Matanzas de Cuba, to take aboard a sugar freight for the Baltic—either Stockholm or Cronstadt; so that when we make Boston-light it will be November, certain. How does that suit ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various

... there; doesn't know very well how he's to get down, an' has no more idea where he's goin' to, or what he's drivin' at, than the man in the moon. Take my advice, lad, an' get out o' poetical regions as fast as ye can. It don't suit a young fellow who has got to do duty as first mate of his father's brig and push his way in the world as a seaman. When I sent you to school an' made you a far better scholar than myself, I had no notion they was ...

— Blown to Bits - or, The Lonely Man of Rakata • Robert Michael Ballantyne

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