Definition of '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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Which type of musical composition am I?
a piece of music, usually in four beats to the bar, having a strongly accented rhythm
Which type of musical composition am I?
a piece of music having eight quavers to the bar composed for or in the rhythm of this dance
Which type of musical composition am I?
a group of four singers or instrumentalists or a piece of music composed for such a group
Which type of musical composition am I?
any of various musical settings for solo voice and piano of a romantic or lyrical poem, for which composers such as Schubert, Schumann, and Wolf are famous
Which type of musical composition am I?
a song, poem, or hymn, esp one that is religious in character
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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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