suite

名词 n.
发音 swēt

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A group or train of attendants, servants etc.; a retinue.
    — [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.
    — a suite of rooms
  3. A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access.
    — The Presidential suite is well appointed and allows for good security.
  4. 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.
  5. 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. A group of related computer programs distributed together.

词形变化

suites plural

词源

Borrowed from Middle French suite. See also the doublet suit.
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