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debtour

debtour is the obsolete form of debtor.

Meaning of debtor

Noun

debtor (plural debtors)

  1. A person or firm that owes money; one in debt; one who owes a debt.
    • The debtor agreed to repay the loan within six months.
    Antonyms:
    creditor
  2. One who owes another anything, or is under obligation, arising from express agreement, implication of law, or principles of natural justice, to pay money or to fulfill some other obligation; in bankruptcy or similar proceedings, the person who is the subject of the proceeding.
    • As a debtor, he faced constant letters from the bank.

Forms of debtour

pluraldebtours

Questions about debtour

What is debtour the obsolete form of?
Debtour is the obsolete form of debtor.

Words near debtour in the dictionary

  1. debtor in possession
  2. debtors
  3. debtors in possession
  4. debtors' prison
  5. debtorship
  6. debtour
  7. debtours
  8. debts
  9. debts of honor
  10. debts of honour
  11. debubblizer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: debtour (page history and authors); debtor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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