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suite

noun
/swiːt/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French suite. See also the doublet suit.

  1. borrowed from suite

Definitions

  1. A group or train of attendants, servants etc.

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

    • [A]s to men, we shall live altogether at the Duc de Romagnecourt's, his suite of servants will be ours.

  2. A connected series or succession of objects

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

    • a suite of rooms
    • a suite of minerals
    • 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.

  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. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A musical form, popular before the time of the sonata, consisting of a string or series…

      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.

    2. An excerpt of instrumental music from a larger work that contains other elements besides…

      An excerpt of instrumental music from a larger work that contains other elements besides the music; for example, the Nutcracker Suite is the music (but not the dancing) from the ballet The Nutcracker, and the Carmen Suite is the instrumental music (but not the singing and dancing) from the opera Carmen.

    3. A group of related computer programs distributed together.

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Derived

bedroom suite, bridal suite, consuite, cottage suite, C-suite, droit de suite, en-suite, en suite, garage suite, gifting suite, gift suite, granny suite, income suite, in-law suite, Jack and Jill suite, minisuite, nonsuite, secondary suite, suitelike, suitemate, three-piece suite

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at suite. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at suite. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at suite

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA