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[ soo-ter ] / ˈsu tər / SEE SYNONYMS FOR suitor ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna man who courts or woos a woman. Law. a petitioner or plaintiff. a person who sues or petitions for anything. Informal. an individual who seeks to buy a business. Origin of suitor1250–1300; Middle English s( e) utor, suitour<Anglo-French <Latin secūtor, equivalent to secū-, variant stem of sequī to follow + -tor-tor Words nearby suitorsuited, suiter, suiting, Suitland-Silver Hill, suit oneself, suitor, suit up, Suiyüan, suk, Sukarnapura, Sukarno Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for suitorIn recent weeks, other rumored suitors included Google, Twitter and WalMart. Twitter users sound off about Oracle’s TikTok deal|Jeff|September 14, 2020|Fortune As Hulu is only available in the US, Disney still would have had to find another suitor to stream the film internationally. Netflix is happy to buy up the movies Hollywood studios can’t release|Adam Epstein|August 4, 2020|Quartz I find both “admirer” and “suitor” to be presumptuous and one-sided. What Should I Call the Man I Love?|Dushka Zapata|November 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST When Cato still refused, the suitor then asked Cato for Cato's own wife. Who Was the Real Cato?|David Frum|December 20, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Soni and Goodman attribute the complicated story to the shared Stoic philosophy of Cato and the suitor. Who Was the Real Cato?|David Frum|December 20, 2012|DAILY BEAST It was only from her suitor that I heard at last of her distress. Her Mother's Secret|Emma D. E. N. Southworth Poverty-stricken and dishonoured, Margaret Basset's son might not be so successful a suitor as the heir of Trevethlan. Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3)|William Davy Watson She made no reply, for the situation seemed as complex to her as to her suitor. Pocket Island|Charles Clark Munn Before the catastrophe, however, he was so repulsively ugly that no lady had ever been willing to receive him as a suitor. The Hated Son|Honore de Balzac He had forfeited the right of appearing before Zeus as a suitor; for indeed he was no longer such as he had been only yesterday. A Thorny Path [Per Aspera], Complete|Georg Ebers
British Dictionary definitions for suitor
nouna man who courts a woman; wooer law a person who brings a suit in a court of law; plaintiff rare a person who makes a request or appeal for anything Word Origin for suitorC13: from Anglo-Norman suter, from Latin secūtor follower, from sequī to follow Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to suitorbeau, paramour, boyfriend, admirer, lover, woman, supplicant, date, follower, swain, cavalier, girlfriend, man, wooer |