OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 4319

suit

/suːt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
flux • tacuche • tailleur (taieur) • terno • traje • vestido
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…
Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco,…
palo
Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by colour 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.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 4320

suit

/suːt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ficar (disused) • pegar a • quedar • quedar bien • sentar bien a • venir bien
To be suitable or apt for one's image.
That new top suits you. Where did you buy it?
The ripped jeans didn't suit her elegant image.
dar la talla
To be appropriate or apt for.
Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.
The nickname "Bullet" suits her, since she is a fast runner.
caer a pelo • convenir
To please; to make content; to fit someone's (or one's own) taste.
He is well suited with his place.
will build to suit [on for-sale signs marking vacant lots]
caer a pelo • convenir
To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with).
Give me not an office / That suits with me so ill.
The place itself was suiting to his care.