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suite (n.)

1670s, "train of followers or attendants," from French suite, from Old French suite, sieute "act of following, attendance" (see suit (n.), which is an earlier borrowing of the same French word). The meanings "set of instrumental compositions" (1680s), "connected set of rooms" (1716), and "set of furniture" (1805) were imported from French usages or re-spelled on the French model from suit in its sense of "a number of things taken collectively and constituting a sequence; collection of things of like kind."

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Definitions of suite from WordNet

suite (n.)
a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected;
suite (n.)
apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel);
Synonyms: rooms
suite (n.)
the group following and attending to some important person;
Synonyms: cortege / retinue / entourage
suite (n.)
a matching set of furniture;
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