suite

Plural

suites

1. 1.A group or train of attendants, servants etc.; a retinue.

2. 2.A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together.

   • Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
   • The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…].

3. 3.A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access.

   • The Presidential suite is well appointed and allows for good security.

4. 4.A musical form, popular before the time of the sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude.

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