Meaning

• 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.

  "Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding."

• (by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit.

• (metonym) 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."

• A full set of armour.

• 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."

• Obsolete The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.

• Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.

• The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.

• The full set of sails required for a ship.

• 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.

• Regular order; succession.

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

• A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.

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

Meaning

• To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.

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

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

• To be appropriate or apt for.

  "Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well."

• (most commonly used in the passive form) To dress; to clothe.

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

  "He is well suited with his place."

• To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with)