suitとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /s(j)uːt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s(j)ut/
• 韻: -uːt
• Homophone: soot (in some dialects)

名詞

A man in a three-piece suit with a bowler hat, glasses and an umbrella.

suit (複数形 suits)

1. A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit または lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     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.

   Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding.

2. (by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit.
3. (derogatory, slang, metonymically) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.

   Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a "surprise" visit to this department.

4. A full set of armour.
5. (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.

   If you take my advice, you'll file a suit against him immediately.

6. (廃れた用法): The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
7. Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
   • 1725, Alexander Pope, Odyssey (original by Homer)

     Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend,
     Till this funereal web my labors end.

8. (obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book I, canto X, stanza 60:

     Thenceforth the suitt of earthly conquest shonne.

9. The full set of sails required for a ship.
11. (card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.
    • 1785, William Cowper, The Task

      To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort
      Her mingled suits and sequences.

12. (obsolete) Regular order; succession.
    • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Vicissitude of Things

    Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again.

13. (archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
14. (archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)

下位語

派生語

関連する語

• suite

参考

Suits in English · suits (see also: cards, playing cards) (layout · text)
hearts ♥	diamonds ♦	spades ♠	clubs ♣

参照

• suit on Wikipedia.

動詞

suit (三人称単数 現在形 suits, 現在分詞 suiting, 過去形および過去分詞形 suited)

1. (transitive) To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:

     Let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

2. (said of clothes, hairstyle または other fashion item, transitive) To be suitable or apt for one's image.

   The ripped jeans didn't suit her elegant image.

   That new top suits you. Where did you buy it?

3. (transitive)To be appropriate or apt for.

   The nickname "Bullet" suits her, since she is a fast runner.

   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415:

   Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.

   • c. 1700, Matthew Prior, epistle to Dr. Sherlock

     Raise her notes to that sublime degree / Which suits song of piety and thee.

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0029:

     “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

4. (most commonly used in the passive form, intransitive) To dress; to clothe.
   • c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:

     So went he suited to his watery tomb.

5. To please; to make content; to fit one's taste.

   He is well suited with his place.

   My new job suits me, as I work fewer hours and don't have to commute so much.

6. (intransitive) To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with)
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415:

     The place itself was suiting to his care.

   • 1713, Joseph Addison, Cato, published 1712, [Act 3, scene 1]:

     Give me not an office / That suits with me so ill.

同意語

• to agree: agree, match, answer

派生語

• suited and booted
• suit up
• suit yourself
• unsuited

アナグラム

• ITUs, Situ, TUIs, Tsui, UTIs, iust, situ, tuis, utis