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suit

Noun

Singular
suit

Plural
suits

suit (plural suits)

  1. Pursuit
    1. (law) 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 suit against him immediately.
    2. (obsolete): The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
    3. (obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
      Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone. —Spenser.
    4. Pusuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
      Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end. —Pope.
    5. (archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
  2. Set, series
    1. (archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.).
    2. The full set of sails required for a ship.
    3. A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man"s matching jacket and trousers, or a similar outfit for a woman.
      Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding.
    4. (slang) A person who wears the clothes in 3.
    5. A full set of armour.
    6. (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.
      To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences. —Cowper.
    7. (obsolete): Regular order; succession.
      Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again. —Bacon.

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4 letters in word "suit": I S T U.

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Words found within suit:

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