[sweet or, for 3 often, soot] 
| 1. | a number of things forming a series or set. |
| 2. | a connected series of rooms to be used together: a hotel suite. |
| 3. | a set of furniture, esp. a set comprising the basic furniture necessary for one room: a bedroom suite. |
| 4. | a company of followers or attendants; a train or retinue. |
| 5. | Music.
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| 6. | Computers. a group of software programs sold as a unit and usually designed to work together. |
| suite (swēt) n.
[French, from Old French; see suit.] |
A group of related pieces of music or movements played in sequence. In the baroque era, a suite was a succession of different kinds of dances. In more recent times, suites have contained excerpts from longer works, such as ballets, or have simply portrayed a scene, as in Ferde Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite.
