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suite

suite

noun SWEE-teh Rare

Origin: From English 'suite', itself from French.

Usage Note

Suite in Spanish refers both to a luxury hotel suite and to a musical suite (a set of instrumental pieces). The gender is feminine — una suite — even though it is a loanword ending in -e. In everyday speech the hotel sense is most common; the musical sense appears mainly in arts journalism.

Examples

"Reservaron una suite con vista al mar."

Natural Translation

They reserved a suite with a sea view.

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