dress suit

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   formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men

   Synonymsfull dresstailcoattail coattailswhite tiewhite tie and tails

   Broaderformalwear

   Partsswallow-tailed coat

Questions about dress suit

What does dress suit mean?

dress suit means "formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men".

What is another word for dress suit?

Close synonyms include full dress, tailcoat, tail coat, tails, white tie. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dress suit a common word?

dress suit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.