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suitor Definition

suitor (so̵̅o̅tər)

noun

  1. a person who requests, petitions, or entreats
  2. a person who sues at law
  3. a man courting or wooing a woman
  4. 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.

  1. A lover

    gallant, admirer, boyfriend, beau; see lover 1.

  2. 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.

—Shaw, George Bernard

Browse dictionary entries near suitor

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  4. suitcase
  5. suitably
  6. suitable
  7. suitability rules
  8. suitability
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  10. suit oneself
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