Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A man who is courting a woman.
- n. A person who makes a petition or request.
- n. Law A person who sues in court; a plaintiff; a petitioner.
- n. A person or group seeking to purchase controlling interest in a company.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In law, a party to a suit or litigation. The pronunciation sū ′ tor is sometimes made shö′ tor, as if spelled
shooter (whence the punning allusion in the quotation from Shakspere, below). - n. One who sues, petitions, solicits, or entreats; a petitioner.
- n. One who sues for the hand of a woman in marriage; a wooer; one who courts a mistress.
- To play the suitor; woo; make love.
Wiktionary
- n. law A party to a suit or litigation.
- n. One who sues, petitions, solicits, or entreats; a petitioner.
- n. One who sues for the hand of a woman in marriage; a wooer; one who courts a mistress.
- v. To play the suitor; to woo; to make love.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant.
- n. Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover.
- n. (Law) One who sues or prosecutes a demand in court; a party to a suit, as a plaintiff, petitioner, etc.
- n. (O. Eng. Law) One who attends a court as plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, appellant, witness, juror, or the like.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a man who courts a woman
Etymologies
- Middle English, plaintiff, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin secūtor, follower, from secūtus, past participle of sequī, to follow; see sekw-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“She called her suitor “Isidore:” this, however, she intimated was not his real name, but one by which it pleased her to baptize him — his own, she hinted, not being”
“He asked her why she did not accept the titled suitor and she replied that titles had no attraction for her, that her mind was made up; there was somebody she liked very much, he might ask her to be his wife some day and she would wait.”
“She called her suitor "Isidore:" this, however, she intimated was not his real name, but one by which it pleased her to baptize him”
“On the move: City will want to hold on to Bellamy, while Spurs boss Harry Redknapp - a long term suitor - can offer Champions League football”
“The third remaining suitor is Italian carmaker Fiat (FIA. MI), which is also in the running to take over another of GM's European units, Germany's Opel, the paper added.”
“Whether the suitor is the appealing Hippolitus or the vile Duke de Luovo, the effect of the marriage plot on Emilia and Julia is the same: separation. [”
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“detailed discussions" with several interested parties - not least long-term suitor EA - but has concluded that moving forward as an independent business would be in the best interests of its shareholders.”
“In Pride and Prejudice, as an example, Darcy, Elizabeth’s suitor, is a serious character who is contrasted with Elizabeth’s sister Lydia’s suitor, Wickham, a wacky con man.”
“It's about how to tell if your suitor is a serial killer, how to escape from a bad date.”
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