n. | 1. | A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; |
2. | A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or clessed together; a set; | |
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. |
Noun | 1. | suite - a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected |
2. | ![]() Synonyms: rooms | |
3. | suite - the group following and attending to some important person | |
4. | suite - a matching set of furniture |
SUITE. Those persons, who by his authority, follow or attend an ambassador
or other public minister.
2. In general the suite of a minister are protected from arrest, and
the inviolability of his person is communicated to those who form his suite.
Vattel, lib. 4, c. 9, Sec. 120. See 1 Dall. 177; Baldw. 240; and Ambassador.