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発音

enPR: swēt

• (Western) IPA: /swiːt/
• 韻: -iːt
• Homophone: sweet

enPR: syo͞ot (spelling pronunciation)

• (Indic) IPA: /sjuːʈ/
• 韻: -uːt
• Homophone: suit
• ハイフネーション: suite

名詞

suite (plural suites)

1. A group or train of attendants, servants etc.; a retinue. [from 16th c.]
   • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 259:

     [A]s to men, we shall live altogether at the Duc de Romagnecourt's, his suite of servants will be ours.

2. A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together. [from 16th c.]

   a suite of rooms

   a suite of minerals

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:

     Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].

3. A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access. [from 18th c.]

   The Presidential suite is well appointed and allows for good security.

4. (music) A musical form, popular before the time of the sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude. [from 19th c.]
5. (music) An excerpt of instrumental music from a larger work that contains other elements besides the music; for example, the Nutcracker Suite is the music (but not the dancing) from the ballet The Nutcracker, and the Carmen Suite is the instrumental music (but not the singing and dancing) from the opera Carmen.
6. (computing) A group of related computer programs distributed together. [from 20th c.]

下位語

• bridal suite
• (computing): office suite, test suite, validation suite
• (music): dance suite

派生語

関連する語

• ensuite

参照

• suite on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Stuie, Tieus, etuis, use it, étuis