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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
suite /swiːt/
noun
  • 1 a set of rooms for one person's or family's use or for a particular purpose.
  • 2 a set of furniture of the same design.
  • 3 Music a set of instrumental compositions to be played in succession.

    ■ a set of pieces from an opera or musical arranged as one instrumental work.

  • 4 a group of people in attendance on a monarch or other person of high rank.
– origin C17: from Fr., from Anglo-Norman Fr. siwte (see suit).
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