SUITE
What does "SUITE" mean?
A connected set of things, such as rooms, musical movements, or software programs, grouped as a unit.
Meanings
- A set of connected rooms, especially in a hotel, used as a single unit. They booked the honeymoon suite overlooking the harbor.
- A musical composition made up of several loosely connected instrumental movements. Bach's cello suites are performed worldwide. technical
- A coordinated set of software applications sold or used together. The office suite includes a word processor and spreadsheet. technical
- A matching set of furniture for a single room. She ordered a three-piece living-room suite.
Did you know?
- 'Suite' and 'suit' are the same word twice borrowed: both come from Latin 'sequi', to follow - which is why a suite of rooms, a suit of clothes, and a card suit all mean 'things that go together'.
Word origin
From French 'suite', meaning a following or sequence, from Old French 'sieute', ultimately from Latin 'sequi' (to follow); a doublet of the English word 'suit'.
Remember it
SUITE is SUIT with a silent E, and it sounds exactly like 'sweet' - a sweet suite at the hotel.
A little poem
Three rooms, one key, a curtain pulled apart-
or three slow movements bowed across a string.
Both mean: these parts were always one whole thing.
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Wordplay
- Why did the musician love the hotel? Every room was part of a suite.
What it teaches
What feels like separate parts is often one design read slowly, room by room.
Quick facts
What does SUITE mean?
A connected set of things, such as rooms, musical movements, or software programs, grouped as a unit.
Is SUITE a valid word?
Yes — SUITE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SUITE?
SUITE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does SUITE come from?
From French 'suite', meaning a following or sequence, from Old French 'sieute', ultimately from Latin 'sequi' (to follow); a doublet of the English word 'suit'.
What can SUITE teach us?
What feels like separate parts is often one design read slowly, room by room.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.