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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SUITOR, n. One that sues or prosecutes a demand of right in law, as a plaintiff, petitioner or appellant.
1. One who attends a court, whether plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, appellant, witness, juror and the like. These, in legal phraseology, are all included in the word suitors.
2. A petitioner; an applicant.
She hath been a suitor to me for her brother.
3. One who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a man who courts a woman; "a suer for the hand of the princess" [syn: suitor, suer, wooer]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English sutour, suytour, follower, petitioner, from Anglo-French siuter, suytour, from Latin secutor follower, from sequi to follow — more at sue Date: 15th century 1. one that petitions or entreats 2. a party to a suit at law 3. one who courts a woman or seeks to marry her 4. one who seeks to take over a business

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a man seeking to marry a specified woman; a wooer. 2 a plaintiff or petitioner in a lawsuit. Etymology: ME f. AF seutor, suitour, etc., f. L secutor -oris f. sequi secut- follow

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Suitor Suit"or, n. 1. One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant. She hath been a suitor to me for her brother. --Shak. 2. Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover. --Sir P. Sidney. 3. (a) (Law) One who sues or prosecutes a demand in court; a party to a suit, as a plaintiff, petitioner, etc. (b) (O. Eng. Law) One who attends a court as plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, appellant, witness, juror, or the like.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(suitors) 1. A woman's suitor is a man who wants to marry her. (OLD-FASHIONED) My mother had a suitor who adored her. N-COUNT 2. A suitor is a company or organization that wants to buy another company. (BUSINESS) The company was making little progress in trying to find a suitor... N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Solicitor, petitioner, applicant, suppliant, supplicant. 2. Wooer, lover, gallant.

Moby Thesaurus

accessory, accusant, accuser, addict, admirer, adorer, allegator, amorist, appellant, applicant, asker, aspirant, aspirer, beau, beggar, bidder, boyfriend, candidate, cavalier, claimant, collector, complainant, coveter, defendant, delator, desirer, devotee, escort, fancier, follower, freak, gallant, hankerer, hopeful, impeacher, impugner, inamorato, indictor, infatuate, informer, libelant, litigant, litigationist, litigator, lover, man, panel, paramour, parties litigant, party, petitioner, plaintiff, postulant, prayer, prosecutor, pursuer, seeker, solicitant, solicitor, spark, sparker, suppliant, supplicant, supplicator, swain, the prosecution, votary, wanter, wisher, witness, wooer, yearner