Definition of "suit" in Englisch

noun

1. (clothing) 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.

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

3. (Pakistan, women's speech) A dress.

4. (derogatory, slang, metonymic) 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.

5. A full set of armour.

6. (law) 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.

7. Petition, request, entreaty.

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

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

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

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

12. (card games) 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.

13. (obsolete) Regular order; succession.

    • Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again.

14. (archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.

15. (archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)

verb

1. (transitive) To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.

2. (transitive, said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item) To be suitable or apt for one's image.

   • The ripped jeans didn't suit her elegant image.
   • That new top suits you. Where did you buy it?

3. (transitive, figurative) To be appropriate or apt for.

   • The nickname "Bullet" suits her, since she is a fast runner.
   • c. 1700, Matthew Prior, epistle to Dr. Sherlock Raise her notes to that sublime degree / Which suits song of piety and thee.

4. (most commonly used in the passive form, intransitive) To dress; to clothe.