suite

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A group or train of attendants, servants etc.; a retinue.

   [A]s to men, we shall live altogether at the Duc de Romagnecourt's, his suite of servants will be ours.

2. 2
   noun

   A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together.

   a suite of rooms

3. 3
   noun

   A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access.

   The Presidential suite is well appointed and allows for good security.

4. 4
   noun

   apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)

5. 5
   noun

   a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected

6. 6
   noun

   a matching set of furniture

7. 7
   noun

   the group following and attending to some important person

8. 8
   noun

   A musical form, popular before the time of the sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French suite. See also the doublet suit.