suit – English noun declension

English noun forms of suit

Noun: suit
Singularsuit
Pluralsuits

Sample Sentences

  • A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe. [1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
  • Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food. [2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:]
  • Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding.
  • Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a "surprise" visit to this department.
  • You had an army / Of suits behind you [1996, Ani DiFranco, “Napoleon”, in Dilate:]
  • Two smartly dressed suits walked up to the doctor. "Are you alright Dr. La Perouse?" [2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 29:]
  • Suits didn't wear suits any more—they wore Tibetan prayer beads coiled around their wrists. But they slithered in a suitlike way. [2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:]
  • If you take my advice, you'll file a suit against him immediately.
  • Tam[burlaine]. Are you the wittie King of Perſea?
  • Myc[etes]. I marrie am I: haue you any ſute to me?
  • Tam[burlaine]. I woulde intreate you to ſpeake but three wiſe wordes. [c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iv:]
  • Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend,
  • Till this funereal web my labors end. [1725–1726, Homer, “(please specify the book or chapter of the Odyssey)”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:]
  • Thenceforth the suitt of earthly conquest shonne. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 60:]
  • To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort
  • Her mingled suits and sequences. [1785, William Cowper, The Task:]
  • [1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Vicissitude of Things”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:]
  • Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again.
  • "You must wear these to-day, my dear child," said Lord Norbourne, as, entering the dressing-room of his daughter, he laid a suit of pearls on her table [1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 212–213:]

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 secūta), 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. See: Middle English Nouns 'sute', Latin Nouns 'sequi', Italian Nouns 'seguire'.

Verbs referencing "suit"

Spanish Nouns siútico.