Suitor

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Suitor \Suit"or\, n.
     1. One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an
        applicant.
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              She hath been a suitor to me for her brother.


                                                    --Shak.
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     2. Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer;
        a lover. --Sir P. Sidney.
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     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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "suitor":
     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
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  SUITOR. One who is a party to a suit or action in court. One who is a party 
  to an action. In its ancient sense, suitor meant one Who was bound to attend 
  the county court, also, one who formed part of the secta. (q.v.)