LONG SUIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does long suit mean? 

• LONG SUIT (noun)
  The noun LONG SUIT has 2 senses:

1. in a hand, the suit having the most cards

2. an asset of special worth or utility

  Familiarity information: LONG SUIT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONG SUIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a hand, the suit having the most cards

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("long suit" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "long suit"):

strong suit (a long suit including high cards)

Holonyms ("long suit" is a part of...):

deal; hand (the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An asset of special worth or utility

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

forte; long suit; metier; speciality; specialty; strength; strong point; strong suit

Context example:

cooking is his forte

Hypernyms ("long suit" is a kind of...):

asset; plus (a useful or valuable quality)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "long suit"):

green fingers; green thumb (a special ability to make plants grow)

 Context examples 

Upon what I said in relation to our courts of justice, his majesty desired to be satisfied in several points: and this I was the better able to do, having been formerly almost ruined by a long suit in chancery, which was decreed for me with costs.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)