suit

Noun

• playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color
  • a flush is five cards in the same suit
    
  • in bridge you must follow suit
    
  • what suit is trumps?
    

• a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank

• a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage)
  • its was a brief and intense courtship
    

• (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit
  • all the suits care about is the bottom line
    

• a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
  • the family brought suit against the landlord
    

• a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color
  • they buried him in his best suit
    

Verb

• enhance the appearance of
  • Mourning becomes Electra
    
  • This behavior doesn't suit you!
    

• accord or comport with
  • This kind of behavior does not suit a young woman!
    

• be agreeable or acceptable
  • This time suits me
    

• be agreeable or acceptable to
  • This suits my needs
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  courtship , wooing , courting , lawsuit , case , cause , causa , suit of clothes , become , befit , beseem , accommodate , fit