suitor
IPA: sˈutɝ
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.
- (by extension) A person or organization that expresses an interest in working with, or taking over, another.
- (law) A party to a suit or litigation.
- One who sues, petitions, solicits, or entreats; a petitioner.
verb
- To play the suitor; to woo; to make love.
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Examples of "suitor" in Sentences
- He is curious of his suitor.
- The pillaged suitor might mutter.
- She knows whom her suitor will be.
- The suitors went away feeling dejected.
- All of the suitors wonder what happened.
- Who will be your suitor amongst these men
- The suitor is poisoned by the woman he visits.
- The second suitor is the conceited Prince of Aragon.
- Who the suitor is depends on the version of the tale.
- Poorni is willing to accept the offer to marry the suitor.
- It's about how to tell if your suitor is a serial killer, how to escape from a bad date.
- She called her suitor "Isidore:" this, however, she intimated was not his real name, but one by which it pleased her to baptize him
- On the move: City will want to hold on to Bellamy, while Spurs boss Harry Redknapp - a long term suitor - can offer Champions League football
- Whether the suitor is the appealing Hippolitus or the vile Duke de Luovo, the effect of the marriage plot on Emilia and Julia is the same: separation. [
- She called her suitor “Isidore:” this, however, she intimated was not his real name, but one by which it pleased her to baptize him — his own, she hinted, not being
- The third remaining suitor is Italian carmaker Fiat (FIA. MI), which is also in the running to take over another of GM's European units, Germany's Opel, the paper added.
- In Pride and Prejudice, as an example, Darcy, Elizabeth’s suitor, is a serious character who is contrasted with Elizabeth’s sister Lydia’s suitor, Wickham, a wacky con man.
- "detailed discussions" with several interested parties - not least long-term suitor EA - but has concluded that moving forward as an independent business would be in the best interests of its shareholders.
- He asked her why she did not accept the titled suitor and she replied that titles had no attraction for her, that her mind was made up; there was somebody she liked very much, he might ask her to be his wife some day and she would wait.
- Review: Forgetting the fact that the "suitor" is actually the girl's cousin and that the girl is fifteen years old - because that whole thing's a little creepy - this hardly qualifies as a time travel story just because two captains travel around the world in opposite directions so that each is one calendar day off from local time.