The difference between Office suite and Suite

When used as nouns, office suite means a bundle of applications intended to be used together for productivity purposes, such as a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation program, a database etc, whereas suite means a retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage.


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  1. Office suite as a noun:

    A bundle of applications intended to be used together for productivity purposes, such as a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation program, a database etc.

  1. Suite as a noun:

    A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage

    Examples:

    "the ambassador's suite"

  2. Suite as a noun:

    A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together

    Examples:

    "a suite of rooms"

    "a suite of minerals"

  3. Suite as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "The Presidential suite is well appointed and allows for good security."

  4. Suite as a noun (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.

  5. Suite as a noun (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.

  6. Suite as a noun (computing):

    A group of related computer programs distributed together.

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