suitor

The definition of a suitor is someone who is pursuing a romantic relationship with another.

(noun)

A man who is trying to get a woman to date him is an example of a suitor.

See suitor in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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

Origin: ME sutere < Anglo-Fr seutor < L secutor < secutus, pp. of sequi, to follow: see sequent

See suitor in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Origin:

Origin: Middle English, plaintiff

Origin: , from Anglo-Norman

Origin: , from Latin secūtor, follower

Origin: , from secūtus

Origin: , past participle of sequī, to follow; see sek^w-¹ in Indo-European roots

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