Usually means: Formal set of matching clothes.
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We found 55 dictionaries that define the word suit:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. suit: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. suit: Merriam-Webster
  3. suit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. suit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. suit: Collins English Dictionary
  6. suit: Vocabulary.com
  7. Suit, suit: Wordnik
  8. suit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Suit, suit: Wiktionary
  10. suit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. suit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. suit: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. suit: Dictionary.com
  14. suit (n.), suit (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. suit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SUIT (sight), Suit (album), Suit (cards), Suit (clothes), Suit (clothing), Suit (disambiguation), Suit (playing cards), Suit, The Suit (short story): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Suit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. suit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. suit: Rhymezone
  20. suit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. suit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. suit: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Suit: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. suit: FreeDictionary.org
  25. suit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. suit: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. suit: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suit-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. suit: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. suit: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. suit: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Suit (law), suit: Legal dictionary
  6. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. suit: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. suit: CCI Computer
  3. Suit: Game Dictionary
  4. Suit (law), suit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. suit: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Suit (law), suit: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. SUIT: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. suit: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. suit, suit: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. suit: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. S.U.I.T, s(cr)uit, suit: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Suit: Dan's Poker
  2. Internet Karting Glossary (No longer online)
  3. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suit: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (clothing) 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.
noun:  (by extension) A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.
noun:  (Pakistan, women's speech) a dress.
noun:  (derogatory, slang, metonymically) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
noun:  A full set of armour.
noun:  (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.
noun:  Petition, request, entreaty.
noun:  (obsolete) The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
noun:  Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
noun:  (obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
noun:  The full set of sails required for a ship.
noun:  (card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by colour and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.
noun:  (obsolete) Regular order; succession.
noun:  (archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
noun:  (archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)
verb:  (transitive) To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
verb:  (transitive, said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item) To be suitable or apt for one's image.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To be appropriate or apt for.
verb:  (most commonly used in the passive form, intransitive) To dress; to clothe.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To please; to make content; to fit someone's (or one's own) taste.
verb:  (intransitive) To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with).
noun:  A surname.

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