suite
pronunciation
How to pronounce suite in British English:
UK [swiːt]
How to pronounce suite in American English:
US [swiːt]
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- Noun:
- a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected
- apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)
- the group following and attending to some important person
- a matching set of furniture
Word Origin
- suite (n.)
- 1670s, "train of followers or attendants," from French suite, from Old French suite, sieute "act of following, attendance" (see suit (n.), which is an earlier borrowing of the same French word). The meanings "set of instrumental compositions" (1680s), "connected set of rooms" (1716), and "set of furniture" (1805) were imported from French usages or re-spelled on the French model from suit in its sense of "a number of things taken collectively and constituting a sequence; collection of things of like kind."
Example
- 1. Google is gradually expanding its suite of cloud-based offerings .
- 2. The key to my suite , nate 's heart and your future happiness .
- 3. Religions offer a suite of special services to generate additional income .
- 4. In each suite , etihad provides a luxury changing room and mini bar .
- 5. Only a comprehensive , automated test suite can find logic errors .