Costume vs. Suite — What's the Difference?

Costume is the distinctive style of dress or cosmetic of an individual or group that reflects class, gender, profession, ethnicity, nationality, activity or epoch. In short costume is a cultural visual of the people.

A set of rooms designated for one person's or family's use or for a particular purpose

A style of dress, including garments, accessories, and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period, or people.

A set of instrumental compositions, originally in dance style, to be played in succession.

An outfit or a disguise worn on Mardi Gras, Halloween, or similar occasions.

A group of people in attendance on a monarch or other person of high rank

A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.

A set of programs with a uniform design and the ability to share data.

To put a costume on; dress.

A group of minerals, rocks, or fossils occurring together and characteristic of a location or period

To design or furnish costumes for.

A staff of attendants or followers; a retinue.

A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people.

A group of related things intended to be used together; a set.

An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc.

(also st) A set of matching furniture

A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.

A series of connected rooms, as in a hotel or office building, used as a single unit.

To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.

An instrumental composition, especially of the 1600s or 1700s, consisting of a succession of dances in the same or related keys.

Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.

An instrumental composition consisting of a series of varying movements or pieces.

Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described.

A group of software products packaged and sold together, usually having a consistent look and feel, a common installation, and shared macros.

A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.

A group of procedures that work cooperatively

The attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball;

A group or train of attendants, servants etc.; a retinue.

Unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate to the time and place;

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

The prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and hair style as well as garments)

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

The attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class;

(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.

Dress in a costume;

(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.

Furnish with costumes; as for a film or play

(computing) A group of related computer programs distributed together.

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.

A musical composition of several movements only loosely connected

Apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)

The group following and attending to some important person

A matching set of furniture