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Suit

noun

1.

A set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color. Synonym: suit of clothes.

2.

A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy. Synonyms: case, causa, cause, lawsuit.

3.

(slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit.

4.

A man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage). Synonyms: courting, courtship, wooing.

5.

A petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank.

6.

Playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color. "In bridge you must follow suit" , "What suit is trumps?"

verb

(past & past part. suited; pres. part. suiting)

1.

Be agreeable or acceptable to. Synonyms: accommodate, fit.

2.

Be agreeable or acceptable.

3.

Accord or comport with. Synonyms: befit, beseem.

4.

Enhance the appearance of. Synonym: become. "This behavior doesn't suit you!"

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"Suit" Quotes from Famous Books

... another aspect of petitionary prayer which demands a passing notice. It actually represents the Supreme Being as an individual who will interfere with what are manifestly natural laws to suit the convenience or even the whim of the votary; and worse than that, that the course of events will be so ordered as to meet the requirements of the individual supplicant, to the exclusion of the needs, the convenience or circumstances, of numberless other human beings who may be seriously incommoded, ...

— Morality as a Religion - An exposition of some first principles • W. R. Washington Sullivan

... "with a clerical sore-throat, and forced to give up his duty for a whole summer. He writes to ask me whether, as he understands I have a curate as good as myself—that is what the old fellow says—it might not suit me to take my family to his place for the summer. He assures me I should like it, and that it would do us all good. His house, he says, is large enough to hold us, and he knows I should not like to be without duty wherever I was. And so on Read the letter for yourself, and turn it over in ...

— The Seaboard Parish Volume 1 • George MacDonald

... and sleepy, ready to go into winter quarters. Ringtail seldom braved the gales of winter. He was an indolent, peace-loving fellow, who would not have been able to cope with the hunger and cold of the snowy months. The home hollow was not quite deep enough to suit his fancy, so for one whole day he wandered about, investigating tree after tree before he found one to his liking. Occasionally he would enter a hole to find it occupied by another raccoon who only looked at him sleepily and went ...

— Followers of the Trail • Zoe Meyer

... "What d'ye mean, quick learn? Nowadays I never seen the like! A greenhorn comes over here from Russland which he is such an iggeramus he don't know his own name, understand me; and he expects right away to get a job in a cloak-and-suit concern uptown, where they would learn him how he should talk English and at the same time pay him ten dollars a week. Actually, Mawruss, them fellers thinks they are doing you a favour if they ruin ten garments a day on you in exchange for learning ...

— Abe and Mawruss - Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter • Montague Glass

... a poet of proud repute And wrote full many a play, Now strutting in a silken suit, ...

— Collected Poems - Volume Two (of 2) • Alfred Noyes

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