Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man who is courting a woman.
- noun A person who makes a petition or request.
- noun Law A person who sues in court; a plaintiff; a petitioner.
- noun A person or entity trying to acquire a controlling interest in a company, as by purchasing sufficient shares of its stock.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, a party to a suit or litigation.
- noun One who sues, petitions, solicits, or entreats; a petitioner.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant.
- noun Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover.
- noun (Law) One who sues or prosecutes a demand in court; a party to a suit, as a plaintiff, petitioner, etc.
- noun (O. Eng. Law) One who attends a court as plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, appellant, witness, juror, or the like.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law A party to a
suit orlitigation . - noun One who
sues ,petitions ,solicits , orentreats ; apetitioner . - noun One who sues for the hand of a woman in marriage; a
wooer ; one whocourts amistress . - verb To play the suitor; to
woo ; tomake love .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a man who courts a woman
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Review: Forgetting the fact that the "suitor" is actually the girl's cousin and that the girl is fifteen years old - because that whole thing's a little creepy - this hardly qualifies as a time travel story just because two captains travel around the world in opposite directions so that each is one calendar day off from local time.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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. [
Money, Matrimony, and Memory: Secondary Heroines in Radcliffe, Austen, and Cooper
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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.
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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.
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It's about how to tell if your suitor is a serial killer, how to escape from a bad date.
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