Suite
[swiːt] or [swit]
Definition
(noun.) apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel).
(noun.) a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected.
(noun.) a matching set of furniture.
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Definition
(n.) A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as, the suite of an ambassador. See Suit, n., 5.
(n.) A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or clessed together; a set; as, a suite of rooms; a suite of minerals. See Suit, n., 6.
(n.) One of the old musical forms, before the time of the more compact sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude. Some composers of the present day affect the suite form.
Editor: Patrick
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Train (of attendants), staff, retinue, followers, CORTÉGE.[2]. Set (particularly of apartments).
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Definition
n. a train of followers or attendants: a regular set particularly of rooms: a series of dances arranged for instruments in the same or relative keys and usually preceded by a prelude: a sequel.
Editor: Solomon
Examples
- With the judges, a group of famous scientific men, and the Emperor’s suite for audience, Bell went to the transmitter at the other end of the wire, while Dom Pedro put the receiver to his ear. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- If he could go in the suite of some Colonial Governor! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Lights now appeared to guide us; and a long suite of splendid rooms illuminated, made us still more wonder. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- A door which faced that which led into the quarters of the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Let Meess (meaning me) take her, said Madame; et qu'on aille tout de suite chercher un fiacre. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Below the Bank was a suite of three or four rooms with barred windows, which had the appearance of a jail for criminal rats. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Parceque, quand vous serez morte--vous br?lerez tout de suite dans l'Enfer. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Monseigneur was in his inner room, his sanctuary of sanctuaries, the Holiest of Holiests to the crowd of worshippers in the suite of rooms without. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- William Dorrit, Esquire Frederick Dorrit, Esquire Edward Dorrit, Esquire Miss Dorrit Miss Amy Dorrit Mrs General and Suite. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Ellsworth Baker, tout de suite de France, place de naissance Amerique, destination la Grand Bretagne. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- One of the immense suite of rooms formed a delicious, refreshing contrast to the dazzling brilliancy of all the others. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- On ringing the bell at a second great door, we were admitted to a suite of very handsome apartments. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Mrs. Crawley, who had her carriage, gave entertainments, and lived in a very genteel manner, occupied another suite of apartments in the same hotel. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In the preceding Section, we learned that many houses heated by hot water are supplied with fresh-air pipes which admit fresh air into separate rooms or into suites of rooms. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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