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.

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See suitor in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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

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

See suitor in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. A man who is courting a woman.
  2. A person who makes a petition or request.
  3. Law A person who sues in court; a plaintiff; a petitioner.
  4. A person or group seeking to purchase controlling interest in a company.

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 sekw-1 in Indo-European roots

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