Definition of 'suite'
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suite
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suite in British English
noun
4.
a number of attendants or followers
5. music
a.
an instrumental composition consisting of several movements in the same key based on or derived from dance rhythms, esp in the baroque period
b.
an instrumental composition in several movements less closely connected than a sonata
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Word origin
C17: from French, from Old French sieute; see suitWord Frequency
suite in American English
noun
2.
a set or series of related things
; specif.,a.
a group of connected rooms used as a unit, such as an apartment
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Word origin
Fr: see suitWord Frequency
suite in Hospitality
(swit)
Word forms: (regular plural) suites
noun
(Hospitality (hotel): Hotel room)
A suite is a set of rooms in a hotel or other building.
He chose the most expensive suite in the whole hotel.
Our two-room suites consist of a bedroom and a separate living room.
Two suites and fourteen guest rooms are available in the hotel.
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a type of 16th- or 17th-century part song for unaccompanied voices with an amatory or pastoral text
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comic opera, esp that originating in Italy during the 18th century
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a composition free in structure and highly emotional in character
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a brisk lively movement, developed from the minuet, with a contrastive middle section (a trio)
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a piece of music composed in the rhythm of this dance
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In other languages
suite
British English: suite
/swiːt/ NOUN
A suite is a set of rooms in a hotel or other building.
...a new suite of offices.
- American English: suite /ˈswit/
- Arabic: جَنَاح
- Brazilian Portuguese: suíte
- Chinese: 套房
- Croatian: apartman
- Czech: apartmá v hotelu
- Danish: suite
- Dutch: suite
- European Spanish: suite
- Finnish: sviitti
- French: suite hôtel
- German: Suite
- Greek: σουίτα
- Italian: suite
- Japanese: スイート
- Korean: 스위트 룸
- Norwegian: suite
- Polish: komplet mebli
- European Portuguese: suite
- Romanian: anfiladă
- Russian: комплект
- Latin American Spanish: suite
- Swedish: svit
- Thai: ห้องชุด
- Turkish: suit
- Ukrainian: апартаменти
- Vietnamese: dãy phòng
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