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follow suit

follow suit verb: to play a card of the same suit as the previous or leading card.

Verb

follow suit (third-person singular simple present follows suit, present participle following suit, simple past and past participle followed suit)

  1. To play a card of the same suit as the previous or leading card.
  2. (idiomatic) To follow an example; to imitate or copy the actions of another.
    • If you are not sure of the proper etiquette, watch what others do and follow suit.
    • After World War II it took time to clear up the arrears of track maintenance on both lines and it was not until 1953 that the L.M.R. restored any two-hour schedules, the W.R. following suit a year later.1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 98

follow suit meaning in Tamil and Thai

follow suit in Tamil

ஒத்துச் செயல்படு, பின் பற்றிச் செய்

follow suit in Thai

follow an example
ทำตาม, กระทำตาม

Examples of follow suit in a sentence

  • The wise man built his words upon the rocks / But I'm not bound to follow suit1984, “So. Central Rain”, in Reckoning, performed by R.E.M.:
  • And as a post-civil rights African American, I assumed that it was a white audience's job to follow suit.2014 May 28, John McWhorter, “Saint Maya”, in The New Republic, →ISSN:

Forms of follow suit

third-person singular presentfollows suit
present participlefollowing suit
past participlefollowed suit
pastfollowed suit

Questions about follow suit

What does follow suit mean?
Follow suit means to play a card of the same suit as the previous or leading card.
What is follow suit in Tamil?
Follow suit in Tamil is ஒத்துச் செயல்படு, பின் பற்றிச் செய். See Follow suit meaning in Tamil.
How do you use follow suit in a sentence?
The wise man built his words upon the rocks / But I'm not bound to follow suit
What part of speech is follow suit?
Follow suit is a verb.
What is the past tense of follow suit?
The past tense of follow suit is followed suit.

Words near follow suit in the dictionary

  1. follow ons
  2. follow someone off a cliff
  3. follow someone to the ends of the earth
  4. follow someone to the ends of the world
  5. follow spot
  6. follow suit
  7. follow suite
  8. follow that
  9. follow the bee
  10. follow the crowd
  11. follow the hounds

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: follow suit (page history and authors); follow suit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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