Noun

(en noun)

A group of servants or attendants, especially of someone considered important.

the queen’s retinues

* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift

Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.

(obsolete) A service relationship.

Noun

(en noun)

A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as, the suite of an ambassador.

A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together; a set; as, a suite of rooms; a suite of minerals.

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Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}

A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access.

(music)  A musical form, popular before the time of the sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude.

(music)  An excerpt of instrumental music from a larger work that contains other elements besides the music; for example, the Nutcracker Suite'' is the music (but not the dancing) from the ballet ''The Nutcracker'', and the ''Carmen Suite'' is the instrumental music (but not the singing and dancing) from the opera ''Carmen .