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Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

Source : WordNet®

suite
     n 1: a musical composition of several movements only loosely
          connected
     2: apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as
        a living unit (as in a hotel) [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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