Suit definition
This candidate does not suit our qualifications.
Builders who suit the house to the owner's specifications.
An example of suit is a tuxedo.
An example of suit is diamonds, spades, hearts and clubs in playing cards.
A color that suits you.
The NCOs suited the recruits in green uniforms.
A suit of armor.
Anything that suits your fancy.
Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a "surprise" visit to this department.
If you take my advice, you'll file suit against him immediately.
The ripped jeans didn't suit her elegant image.
That new top suits you. Where did you buy it?
- Matthew Prior.Raise her notes to that sublime degree / Which suits song of piety and thee.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter 1, The Purchase Price.“[...] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons"‰! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.".
The nickname "Bullet" suits her, since she is a fast runner.
Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.
My new job suits me, as I work fewer hours and don't have to commute so much.
A diving suit; a running suit.
A suit of sails; a suit of tools.
She was inclined to accept his suit.
A choice that suits us all.
- to institute legal, civil action; sue
- to play a card of the same suit as the card led
- to follow the example set
- a person's greatest talent, most conspicuous character trait, etc.Patience is my strong suit.
- to act according to one's own wishes
- to put on an athletic uniform, spacesuit, etc. in preparation for a particular activity
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of suit
- Middle English sute from Anglo-Norman from Vulgar Latin sequita act of following feminine of sequitus past participle of sequere to follow from Latin sequī suitor
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Anglo-Norman siute, from Old French sieute (modern suite), originally a participle adjective from Vulgar Latin *sequita (for secÅ«ta), from Latin sequi (“to follow"), because the component garments "follow each other", i.e. are worn together.
From Wiktionary