suit
Forms
- Plural
- suits
- present (v1)
- suit
- past (v2)
- suited
- past participle (v3)
- suited
- present participle
- suiting
- 3rd person singular
- suits
Definitions
1.A dress.
2.A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.(slang)
- Two smartly dressed suits walked up to the doctor. "Are you alright Dr. La Perouse?"
- Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a "surprise" visit to this department.
- Suits didn't wear suits any more, they wore Tibetan prayer beads coiled around their wrists. But they slithered in a suitlike way.
3.A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.
- Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding.
4.A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.
1.To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
2.To be suitable or apt for one's image.
- That new top suits you. Where did you buy it?
- The ripped jeans didn't suit her elegant image.
3.To be appropriate or apt for.
- Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.
- The nickname "Bullet" suits her, since she is a fast runner.
4.To dress; to clothe.
- So went he suited to his watery tomb.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1675
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
Etymology
From Middle English sute, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suite and Old French sieute, siute (modern suite), originally a participle adjective from Vulgar Latin *sequita (for secūta), from Latin sequi (“to follow”), because the component garments "follow each other", i.e.