Meaning

15 senses
  1. 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.

    Anzug

    костю́мkostjúm

    костю́мkostjúm

  2. (broadly)A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.

    костю́мkostjúm, комбинезо́нkombinezón

    костю́мkostjúm, комбінезо́нkombinezón

  3. (Pakistan)A dress.

  4. (derogatory, metonymically, slang)A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.

    Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a "surprise" visit to this department.

    Anzugträger

  5. A full set of armour.

  6. The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.

    If you take my advice, you'll file a suit against him immediately.

    a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy

  7. Petition, request, entreaty.

  8. Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.

  9. The full set of sails required for a ship.

  10. Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by colour and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.

    Farbe

    ма́стьmástʹ

    мастьmastʹ

    playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color

  11. (obsolete)The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.

  12. (obsolete)The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.

Examples

1118 sentences
  1. I'll make you a new suit.

    Я зшию тобі новий костюм.

    ruЯ сошью тебе новый костюм.

    deIch werde dir ein neues Kostüm machen.

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  2. He made me a new suit.

    Він зробив мені новий костюм.

    ruОн изготовил мне новый костюм.

    deEr hat mir einen neuen Anzug angefertigt.

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  3. She made him a new suit.

    Вона зшила йому новий костюм.

    ruОна сшила ему новый костюм.

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  4. Why are you wearing a suit?

    Чому ти в костюмі?

    ruПочему ты в костюме?

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  5. Tom bought himself a new suit.

    Том купив собі новий костюм.

    ruТом купил себе новый костюм.

    deTom hat sich einen neuen Anzug gekauft.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
set of clothes:
garment suitable for a task:
card games: set of cards distinguished by color and emblems:
Русский
By meaning 4
set of clothes:
garment suitable for a task:
card games: set of cards distinguished by color and emblems:
group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
set of clothes:
slang: person who wears matching jacket and trousers:
card games: set of cards distinguished by color and emblems:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English sute, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suite, from metathesis of e

Inherited from Middle English sute, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suite, from metathesis of earlier Old French siute, from Vulgar Latin *sequita, from *sequere, from sequor, sequi, from Proto-Italic *sekʷōr, from Proto-Indo-European *sékʷetor, from *sekʷ-. Doublet of suite. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Related to sue and segue.

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Forms

plural: suits
Singularsuit
Pluralsuits

regular

Synonyms

11 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color:suit of clothes
  • a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy:lawsuitcasecausecausa
  • a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage):courtshipwooingcourting

Word family

136 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • wear a suit
  • a new suit
  • new suit
  • bathing suit
  • suit and tie
  • your bathing suit
  • a gray suit
  • a suit and
  • new suit for
  • a bathing suit
  • gray suit
  • new suit made

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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