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suit
English
Etymology
From Middle English sute, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suite and Old French sieute, siute (modern suite), originally a participle adjective from Vulgar Latin *sequita (for sec?ta), from Latin sequi (“to follow”), because the component garments "follow each other", i.e. are worn together. See also the doublet suite. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Related to sue and segue.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /s(j)u?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /s(j)ut/
- Rhymes: -u?t
- Homophone: soot (in some dialects)
Noun
suit (plural suits)
- A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.
- (by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit.
- (derogatory, slang, metonymically) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
- A full set of armour.
- (law) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.
- (obsolete): The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
- Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
- 1725, Alexander Pope, Odyssey (original by Homer)
- Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend,
Till this funereal web my labors end.
- Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend,
- 1725, Alexander Pope, Odyssey (original by Homer)
- (obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
- The full set of sails required for a ship.
- (card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.
- 1785, William Cowper, The Task
- To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort
Her mingled suits and sequences.
- To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort
- 1785, William Cowper, The Task
- (obsolete) Regular order; succession.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Vicissitude of Things
- Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again.
- (archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
- (archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- suite
Translations
See also
References
- suit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
suit (third-person singular simple present suits, present participle suiting, simple past and past participle suited)
- (transitive) To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
- (said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item, transitive) To be suitable or apt for one's image.
- (transitive) To be appropriate or apt for.
- c. 1700, Matthew Prior, epistle to Dr. Sherlock
- Raise her notes to that sublime degree / Which suits song of piety and thee.
- c. 1700, Matthew Prior, epistle to Dr. Sherlock
- (most commonly used in the passive form, intransitive) To dress; to clothe.
- To please; to make content; to fit one's taste.
- (intransitive) To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with)
- Synonyms: agree, match, answer
Derived terms
- suited and booted
- suit up
- suit yourself
- unsuited
Translations
Anagrams
- ITUs, Situ, TUIs, Tsui, UTIs, iust, situ, tuis, utis
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?i/
- Rhymes: -?i
- Homophone: suis
Verb
suit
- third-person singular present indicative of suivre
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?su.it/, [?s?u?t?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?su.it/, [?su?it?]
Verb
suit
- third-person singular present active indicative of su?
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from English suit.
Noun
suit m (plural suits)
- (Jersey) suit (of clothes)
Synonyms
- fa
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smock
English
Etymology
From Middle English smok, from Old English smocc, smoc, from Proto-Germanic *smukkaz (“something slipped into”); akin to Old High German smocho, Icelandic smokkur, and from the root of Old English smugan (“to creep”), akin to German schmiegen (“to cling to, press close”). Middle High German smiegen, Icelandic smjúga (“to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through”); compare with Lithuanian smukti (“to glide”). See also smug, smuggle.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sm?k/
- (General American) IPA(key): /sm?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Noun
smock (plural smocks)
- A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip.
- 14th century, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk's Prologue and Tale
- Before the folk herselfe stripped she,
- And in her smock, with foot and head all bare,
- Toward her father's house forth is she fare.
- 14th century, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk's Prologue and Tale
- A blouse; a smock frock.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
- And women were in that gabarre [boat]; whom the Red Nightcaps were stripping naked; who begged, in their agony, that their smocks might not be stript from them.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
- A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.
Translations
Adjective
smock (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock
- Hence, of or pertaining to a woman.
Derived terms
- smock mill
- smock race
Verb
smock (third-person singular simple present smocks, present participle smocking, simple past and past participle smocked)
- (transitive) To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.
- (transitive, sewing) To apply smocking.
Derived terms
- smocker
References
- smock in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Mocks, mocks
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English smoke, from Old English smoca.
Noun
smock
- smoke
Derived terms
- smockeen
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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