English Dictionary

suit

IPA（発音記号）

/s(j)uːt/

名詞

広義 軽蔑的 換喩的 俗語 廃用 古語

A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.

日本語の意味

一式の服、特に男性の場合はジャケットとパンツがセットになった正式な装い（ビジネススーツやラウンジスーツ）を指し、女性の場合はこれに類似した服装を意味する。

He ironed his suit carefully before the interview.

彼は面接の前にスーツを丁寧にアイロンがけした。

意味（1）

A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.

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.

意味（2）

(by extension) A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.

意味（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.

意味（4）

A full set of armour.

意味（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.

意味（6）

Petition, request, entreaty.

Tam[burlaine]. Are you the wittie King of Perſea? Myc[etes]. I marrie am I: haue you any ſute to me? Tam[burlaine]. I woulde intreate you to ſpeake but three wiſe wordes.

意味（7）

(obsolete): The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.

意味（8）

Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.

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

意味（9）

(obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.

Thenceforth the suitt of earthly conquest shonne.

意味（10）

The full set of sails required for a ship.

意味（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.

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

意味（12）

(obsolete) Regular order; succession.

1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Vicissitude of Things”, in The Essayes[…], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, OCLC 863521290:

意味（13）

(archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.

意味（14）

(archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)

You must wear these to-day, my dear child, said Lord Norbourne, as, entering the dressing-room of his daughter, he laid a suit of pearls on her table

suits （ plural ）