suitor
suitor
Definition
suitor (so̵̅o̅t′ər)
noun
- a person who requests, petitions, or entreats
- a person who sues at law
- a man courting or wooing a woman
- a corporation, investor group, etc. seeking to acquire a company, as by a takeover
Etymology: ME sutere < Anglo-Fr seutor < L secutor < secutus, pp. of sequi, to follow: see sequent
suitor
Synonyms
suitor
n.
A lover
gallant, admirer, boyfriend, beau; see lover 1.A petitioner
suppliant, supplicant, beseecher, appellant.
suitor
Law Definition
n
A plaintiff or petitioner in a lawsuit; the party that
brings the suit; a person or a corporation seeking to take over another
company.
suitor
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- reject: Finally, a rejected suitor persuaded one of the gods to deal with him.
- marry: A girl pledges to marry the suitor who can spend the night in a haunted house.
- attract: Like SBS, COM is losing money and failing to attract a suitor willing to take on the whole division.
- find: Juliet's parents have found a suitor for her, Count Paris.
- have: In each country a youth who had no suitor lost in public estimation.
- kill: An effect of particular note was the blood stains on stage after Odysseus had killed the suitors.
Converse of subject
- besiege: She was besieged by royal suitors, each of whom she favored when it was in her political interest to do so.
Adjective modifier
- would-be: Today, our would-be suitors would almost certainly have met online.
- noble: The noble Suitors crowded round him speaking words of respect while plotting evil in the depths of their hearts.
- prospective: Cameron Diaz also admits to being the kind of former L.A. club girl who used to torture prospective male suitors at will.
- rival: Energy Group agreed to the bid, but rival suitors may not be deterred.
- potential: Is there ever a nice way of putting off potential suitors?
- male: This practice assumes that no ardent male suitor could gain access to the widowed queen.
Modifies a noun
- fund: If necessary public funding should be made available to allow this to happen in the form of a ' suitors fund ' .
Possessives
- death: Then they both sat down by the trunk of the sacred olive-tree to plan the insolent Suitors ' deaths.
- hand: She didn't try to show off by not taking any one of the suitors ' hands, but treated them all equally.
- money: For rule 50 substitute:- " Payment of suitors ' money out of a District Registry or county court 50.
Preposition: for
- hand: Suitors The suitors for the hand of Penelope, lords of the lands neighboring on Ithaca.
suitor Quotes
You think that you are Ann's suitor; that you are the pursuer and she the pursued Fool: it is you who are pursued, the marked down quarry, the destined prey.
Browse dictionary entries near suitor
- suiting
- suited
- suite
- suitcase
- suitably
- suitable
- suitability rules
- suitability
- suit up
- suit oneself
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- Sukarno
- Sukhumi
- sukiyaki
- sukkah
- Sukkot
- Sulawesi
- sulcate
- sulcus
- Suleiman (I)
