suite: Meaning and Definition of

suite

Pronunciation: (swēt or, for 3 often, st), [key]
  1. a number of things forming a series or set.
  2. a connected series of rooms to be used together: a hotel suite.
  3. a set of furniture, esp. a set comprising the basic furniture necessary for one room: a bedroom suite.
  4. a company of followers or attendants; a train or retinue.
    1. an ordered series of instrumental dances, in the same or related keys, commonly preceded by a prelude.
    2. an ordered series of instrumental movements of any character.
  5. a group of software programs sold as a unit and usually designed to work together.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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