different between suit vs wardrobe

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)

1. 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.

2. (by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit.
3. (derogatory, slang, metonymically) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.

4. A full set of armour.
5. (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.

6. (obsolete): The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
7. 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.

8. (obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
9. The full set of sails required for a ship.
11. (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.

12. (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.

13. (archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
14. (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)

1. (transitive) To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
2. (said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item, transitive) To be suitable or apt for one's image.

3. (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.
4. (most commonly used in the passive form, intransitive) To dress; to clothe.
5. To please; to make content; to fit one's taste.

6. (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

1. 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

1. third-person singular present active indicative of su?

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English suit.

Noun

suit m (plural suits)

1. (Jersey) suit (of clothes)

Synonyms

• fa

English

Etymology

From Middle English warderobe, from Old Northern French warderoube, wardereube, northern variants of Old French garderobe, from garder (“to keep safe”) + robe. Subsequently influenced by various senses of garderobe as they developed in French.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w??d???b/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w??d?o?b/

Noun

wardrobe (plural wardrobes)

1. (obsolete) A room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom.
2. (figuratively) A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.
3. (figuratively) The building housing such a department.
4. (obsolete) Any closet used for storing anything.
5. A room for keeping costumes and other property safe at a theater; a prop room.
6. (figuratively) The department of a theater, movie studio, etc which purchases, keeps, and cares for costumes; its staff; its room(s) or building(s).
7. A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture.
8. A tall built-in cupboard or closet for storing clothes, often including a rail for coat-hangers, and usually located in a bedroom.
9. (figuratively, uncommon) Anything that similarly stores or houses something.
   • 1605, 1st Pt. Jeronimo:

     Now death... crams his store house to the top with bloud,
     Might I now and Andrea in one fight,
     Make vp thy wardroope
     Richer by a knight.

10. The contents of a wardrobe: an individual's entire collection of clothing.
11. (figuratively) Any collection of clothing.
12. (figuratively, uncommon) Any collection of anything.
13. (obsolete) A private chamber, particularly one used for sleeping or (euphemistic) urinating and defecating.
14. (hunting, obsolete) Badger feces, particularly used in tracking game.

Synonyms

• (movable furniture for storing clothes): armoir, dresser; cupboard (UK); closet (regional US), press (Irish & Scots), shrank
• (department overseeing costumes): costume department
• (sleeping chamber): See bedroom
• (lavatory or outhouse): See Thesaurus:bathroom

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• lowboy
• tallboy

Verb

wardrobe (third-person singular simple present wardrobes, present participle wardrobing, simple past and past participle wardrobed)

1. (intransitive) To act as a wardrobe department, to provide clothing or sets of clothes.
   • 1954 December 11, Billboard, p. 20:

     […] impressed with the quality of the talent and production, good wardrobing and speedy pacing.

References

• "wardrobe, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (1921), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• bareword, bore draw, bore-draw, drawbore