| suit | |
| 1. n. A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman. | |
| Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding. | |
| 2. n. (by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit. | |
| 3. n. (pejorative, slang) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor. | |
| Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a "surprise" visit to this department. | |
| 4. n. A full set of armour. | |
| 5. n. (legal) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit. | |
| If you take my advice, you'll file a suit against him immediately. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase. | |
| 7. n. Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship. | |
| 8. n. (obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal. | |
| 9. n. The full set of sails required for a ship. | |
| 10. n. (card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic and French playing cards. | |
| 11. n. (obsolete) Regular order; succession. | |
| Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again. | |
| 12. n. (archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue. | |
| 13. n. (archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.) | |
| 14. v. To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit. | |
| 15. v. (said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item, transitive) To be suitable or apt for one's image. | |
| The ripped jeans didn't suit her elegant image. | |
| That new top suits you. Where did you buy it? | |
| 16. v. To be appropriate or apt for. | |
| The nickname "Bullet" suits her, since she is a fast runner. | |
| Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well. | |
| 17. v. (most commonly used in the passive form, intransitive) To dress; to clothe. | |
| 18. v. To please; to make content; to fit one's taste. | |
| He is well suited with his place. | |
| My new job suits me, as I work fewer hours and don't have to commute so much. | |
| 19. v. (intransitive) To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with) | |
