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suit is a noun and verb meaning "a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color". It is pronounced /ˈsut/ — soot. It carries 10 recorded senses.
a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color
“they buried him in his best suit”
a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
“the family brought suit against the landlord”
law
(slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit
“all the suits care about is the bottom line”
disparagement · slang
a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank
playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color
“a flush is five cards in the same suit”
“in bridge you must follow suit”
“what suit is trumps?”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for suit come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.