Noun: suite
| Singular | suite |
| Plural | suites |
Sample Sentences
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[A]s to men, we shall live altogether at the Duc de Romagnecourt's, his suite of servants will be ours. [1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 259:]
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a suite of rooms
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a suite of minerals
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Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand. [1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:]
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The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…]. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
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The Presidential suite is well appointed and allows for good security.
Nouns inflected like suite
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French suite. See also the doublet suit.
Verbs referencing "suite"
Icelandic Nouns
svíta.