Other forms: suites
A suite is a set of connected hotel rooms taken as one booking. A hotel suite, the honeymoon suite, a suite with a sea view.
It is pronounced sweet, exactly like the taste word, which surprises most learners. A bathroom suite is a matching bath, basin and toilet, and a three-piece suite is a British sofa and two armchairs. In music a suite is a set of related pieces played in order. In software, a suite is a set of programs sold together — an office suite. Note en suite, meaning a bathroom opening directly off a bedroom.
1nounsuiteA set of connected rooms taken as one booking.
“They put the family in a suite on the top floor.”
2nounmatchingA set of matching furniture or fittings.
“The bathroom suite is avocado green and original.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
suite is a matched set.
French suite means a following, from the verb suivre, to follow — the same root as sue, pursue and suit. Everything in a suite follows the others: rooms in a row, pieces in an order, furniture in a matching set.
Proto-Indo-European
*sekʷ-
Middle French
suite
English, today
suite
Borrowed from Middle French suite. See also the doublet a doublet of suit.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA