suitor
/ˈsuːtə/US/ˈsutɚ/
suitor noun: one who pursues someone, especially a woman, for a romantic relationship or marriage; a wooer; one who falls in love with or courts someone.
Noun
suitor (plural suitors)
- One who pursues someone, especially a woman, for a romantic relationship or marriage; a wooer; one who falls in love with or courts someone.
- (Notice that "Lysias" begins from the realistic assumption that an attractive young man with many suitors will "gratify" one of them, the only question being which. Rightly or wrongly, he treats the question, "Shall I at all?" as already resolved.)1999, Martha Craven Nussbaum, Sex and Social Justice, →ISBN, page 316
- A person or organization that expresses an interest in working with, or taking over, another.
- […] and Mortimer asserted he had no shortage of suitors ready, willing, and able to make acquisition loans […]2016, Gary D. McGugan, Three Weeks Less a Day, page 43
- The Betaville blog wrote earlier this week about market speculation that Adevinta was attracting takeover interest, without naming the suitors.2023 September 21, Silas Brown, Dinesh Nair, Swetha Gopinath, “Blackstone, Permira Explore Bid for eBay-Backed Adevinta”, in Bloomberg.com
- A party to a suit or litigation.
- Synonyms:
- litigant
- One who sues, petitions, solicits, or entreats; a petitioner.
Verb
suitor (third-person singular simple present suitors, present participle suitoring, simple past and past participle suitored)
suitor meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
suitor in Tamil
- காதலர், காதல் கூர்பவர், மண உறவு கேட்பவர், வழக்குத் தொடுப்பவர்
suitor in Urdu
- عاشق, منگیتر, طالب
suitor in Bengali
- পণিপ্রার্থী, মামলাকারী
suitor in Telugu
- సూటర్
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- suitor in Malayalam
- കമിതാവ്, വിവാഹാർത്ഥി, അന്യായക്കാരൻ
- suitor in Kannada
- ಓಲಯ್ಸುಗ, ಅಂಕೆಗಾರ, ಮನವಿಗಾರ
- suitor in Nepali
- स्यूटर
- suitor in Tagalog
- manliligaw
- suitor in Indonesian
- perayu
Examples of suitor in a sentence
- He left her, much to the satisfaction of her other suitor.
- After being presented with various suitors, she decided none of the candidates were the kind of man she was looking for.
- Her suitors were all vying for her attention.
Synonyms of suitor
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Forms of suitor
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | suitors |
| alternative form | suitour |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | suitors |
| present participle | suitoring |
| past participle | suitored |
| past | suitored |
Origin of suitor
From Middle English sutour, from Anglo-Norman suytour, seuter, from Late Latin secutor (“follower, pursuer”).
Words formed from suitor
Words that rhyme with suitor
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Questions about suitor
- What does suitor mean?
- Suitor means one who pursues someone, especially a woman, for a romantic relationship or marriage; a wooer; one who falls in love with or courts someone.
- What is suitor in Tamil?
- Suitor in Tamil is காதலர், காதல் கூர்பவர், மண உறவு கேட்பவர். See Suitor meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is suitor?
- Suitor can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce suitor?
- Suitor is pronounced /ˈsutɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of suitor?
- The plural of suitor is suitors.
Words near suitor in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: suitor (page history and authors); suitor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); suitor (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); suitor (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); suitor (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); suitor (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); suitor (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); suitor (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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