suite

plural suites

1. A group or train of attendants, servants etc.; a retinue.First known use 16th c.

   [A]s to men, we shall live altogether at the Duc de Romagnecourt's, his suite of servants will be ours.

   1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 259

2. A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together.First known use 16th c.

   a suite of rooms

   3 more examples

   a suite of minerals

   Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.

   1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii

   The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…].

   1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

3. A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access.First known use 18th c.

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

4. entertainmentA 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.First known use 19th c.
5. entertainmentAn 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. computingA group of related computer programs distributed together.First known use 20th c.