a retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as, the suite of an ambassador. see suit, n., 5.-a connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or clessed together; a set; as, a suite of rooms; a suite of minerals. see suit, n., 6.-one of the old musical forms, before the time of the more compact sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude. some composers of the present day affect the suite form.