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suite
has definitions from the fields of housing,music,fine art
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[ noun ] (music,fine art) a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected
Used in print (Musical America, LXXXI:5...)We attended the premieres of his concertos , symphonies , and suites ; we studied , taught , and performed his piano_sonatas , chamber_music , gavottes , and marches ; we bought his records and played them in our schools and universities . (Edward Jablonski, Harold Arlen Happy with the Blues....)By September 1940 the suite had developed into a collection of six songs , `` four spirituals , a dream , and a lullaby '' . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (housing) apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)
Synonyms Used in print (Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)What had been the ambassador 's suite was now jagged walls of blackened brick . (Doris Miles Disney, Mrs. Meeker's Money....)Promptly at one-thirty he entered Hohlbein and Garth 's elegant suite of offices in Medfield 's newest professional building . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the group following and attending to some important person
Used in print (Whit Masterson, Evil Come, Evil Go....)As the afternoon sped toward evening , the suite saw a steady procession of Paxton aides pass in and out , each with his own special problem . |
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[ noun ] a matching set of furniture
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