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suite |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Suite \Suite\, n. [F. See {Suit}, n.] 1. A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as the suite of an ambassador. See {Suit}, n., 5. 2. A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or clessed together; a set as a suite of rooms a suite of minerals. See {Suit}, n., 6. Mr Barnard took one of the candles that stood upon the king's table, and lighted his majesty through a suite of rooms till they came to a private door into the library. --Boswell. 3. (Mus.) One of the old musical forms, before the time of the more compact sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude. Some composers of the present day affect the suite form From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: suite n 1: a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected 2: a series of connected rooms used as a living unit [syn: {rooms}] 3: the group following and attending to some important person [syn: {cortege}, {retinue}, {entourage}] 4: a matching set of furniture
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