Suitor Definition

so͝otər
suitors
noun
suitors
A person who requests, petitions, or entreats.
Webster's New World
A man courting or wooing a woman.
Webster's New World
A person who sues at law.
Webster's New World
A corporation, investor group, etc. seeking to acquire a company, as by a takeover.
Webster's New World
A plaintiff or petitioner in a lawsuit; the party that brings the suit; a person or a corporation seeking to take over another company.
Webster's New World Law
Synonyms:
verb

To play the suitor; to woo; to make love.

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Other Word Forms of Suitor

Noun

Singular:
suitor
Plural:
suitors

Origin of Suitor

  • Middle English plaintiff from Anglo-Norman from Latin secūtor follower from secūtus past participle of sequī to follow sekw-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Suitor Sentence Examples

  • If a suitor changed his mind, he forfeited the presents.

  • Her father wished her to marry a son of Philip IV., king of Spain, while her cousin, the elector palatine, Charles Louis, was also a suitor for her hand, but both proposals fell through and she became the wife of a Dutch prince, William, son of Frederick Henry, prince of Orange.

  • He corresponded frequently with Mary, but there being no hopes whatever of his restoration, and a new suitor being found in the duke of Norfolk, Mary demanded a divorce, on pleas which recall those of Henry VIII.

  • She was famed for her running, and would only consent to marry a suitor who could outstrip her in a race, the consequence of failure being death.

  • Already more than one suitor had made application for her hand, Ferdinand of Aragon, who ultimately became her husband, being among the number; for some little time she was engaged to his elder brother Charles, who died in 1461.

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Words Starting With

SSUSUI

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RORTOR

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