Noun

(en noun)

A definite class, state or condition.

An unfortunate or trying position or condition; a tight spot.

* {{quote-book

, year=1978 , author= , title=The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism , page=xv (20th edition) , passage=Culture, for me, is the effort to provide a coherent set of answers to the existential predicaments that confront all human beings in the passage of their life.}}

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=December 10 , author=Marc Higginson , title=Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Midlanders will hope the victory will kickstart a campaign that looked to have hit the buffers, but the sense of trepidation enveloping the Reebok Stadium heading into the new year underlines the seriousness of the predicament facing Owen Coyle's men.}}

(logic) That which is predicated; a category.

Noun

(en noun)

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.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=Foreword citation , passage=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.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suit ed men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}

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

(pejorative, slang) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.

A full set of armour.

(legal) 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.

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

Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.

Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end. —(Alexander Pope).

The full set of sails required for a ship.

(card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds and French playing cards.

To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences. — (William Cowper).

(obsolete) Regular order; succession.

Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again. — (Francis Bacon).

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

Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone. — (Edmund Spenser).

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

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