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suit-case

suit-case is the archaic form of suitcase.

Meaning of suitcase

Noun

suitcase (plural suitcases)

  1. A large (usually rectangular) piece of luggage used for carrying clothes, and sometimes suits, when travelling.
    • My suitcase is stowed in the luggage rack.
  2. In the Classic Mac OS operating system, a file containing fonts, icons, sounds, and other resources.

See all 4 meanings of suitcase

Forms of suit-case

pluralsuit-cases

Questions about suit-case

What is suit-case the archaic form of?
Suit-case is the archaic form of suitcase.

Words near suit-case in the dictionary

  1. suit one's book
  2. suit oneself
  3. suit service
  4. suit the action to the word
  5. suit up
  6. suit-case
  7. suit-cases
  8. Suita
  9. suitabilities
  10. suitability
  11. suitable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: suit-case (page history and authors); suitcase (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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