SUITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suite mean? 

• SUITE (noun)
  The noun SUITE has 4 senses:

1. a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected

2. apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)

3. the group following and attending to some important person

4. a matching set of furniture

  Familiarity information: SUITE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUITE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A musical composition of several movements only loosely connected

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("suite" is a kind of...):

composition; musical composition; opus; piece; piece of music (a musical work that has been created)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

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

partita ((music) an instrumental suite common in the 18th century)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

rooms; suite

Hypernyms ("suite" is a kind of...):

apartment; flat (a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The group following and attending to some important person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

cortege; entourage; retinue; suite

Hypernyms ("suite" is a kind of...):

assemblage; gathering (a group of persons together in one place)

Meronyms (parts of "suite"):

bodyguard (a group of men who escort and protect some important person)

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

court; royal court (the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A matching set of furniture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("suite" is a kind of...):

set (a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used)

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

bedroom set; bedroom suite (a suite of furniture for the bedroom)

dining-room set; dining-room suite; dining room set; dining room suite (a suite of furniture for the dining room)

living-room set; living-room suite; living room set; living room suite; livingroom set; livingroom suite (a suite of furniture for the living room)

 Context examples 

‘By the way,’ said I, ‘you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one of them has the shutters up.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

EXAMPLE(S): emergency department, surgical suite, patient room

(Place Type Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The offices include all rooms in the physician's office suite.

(Physician Office, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Your name has already been filed as one of the personal suite.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A room or suite of rooms designed as a residence and generally located in a building occupied by more than one household used as an element of an address.

(Apartment, NCI Thesaurus)

May we go up every staircase, and into every suite of rooms?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

This variation was detected by Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite.

(NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars, NASA)

The King himself was staying at Castle Malwood, but several of his suite had been compelled to seek such quarters as they might find in the wooden or wattle-and-daub cottages of the village.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The August 27 flyby was the first time Juno had its entire suite of science instruments activated and looking at the giant planet as the spacecraft zoomed past.

(Juno Successfully Completes Jupiter Flyby, NASA)

Among its suite of highly sensitive instruments is the Microwave Radiometer Instrument (MWR), which records emissions from the gas giant across a wide spectrum of frequencies.

(Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter Lightning, NASA)