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–noun

1.	a man who courts or woos a woman.

2.	Law. a petitioner or plaintiff.

3.	a person who sues or petitions for anything.

4.	Informal. an individual who seeks to buy a business.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME s(e)utor, suitour < AF < L secūtor, equiv. to secū-, var. s. of sequī to follow + -tor -tor

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n.

A man who is courting a woman.
A person who makes a petition or request.
Law A person who sues in court; a plaintiff; a petitioner.
A person or group seeking to purchase controlling interest in a company.

[Middle English, plaintiff, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin secūtor, follower, from secūtus, past participle of sequī, to follow; see sek^w-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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suitor
noun
a man who courts a woman; "a suer for the hand of the princess"

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
ˈsuitor noun

an old word for a man who tries to gain the love of a woman

Arabic:	مُتَقَدِّم بِطَلَب الزَّواج
Chinese (Simplified):	（古）求婚者
Chinese (Traditional):	(古)求婚者
Czech:	ctitel
Danish:	frier
Dutch:	vrijer
Estonian:	kosilane
Finnish:	kosija
French:	soupirant
German:	der Freier
Greek:	επίδοξος μνηστήρας
Hungarian:	kérő
Icelandic:	biðill
Indonesian:	pelamar
Italian:	pretendente, corteggiatore

Japanese:	求婚者
Korean:	구혼자
Latvian:	pielūdzējs
Lithuanian:	gerbėjas
Norwegian:	frier, beiler
Polish:	zalotnik, starający się
Portuguese (Brazil):	pretendente
Portuguese (Portugal):	pretendente
Romanian:	pretendent
Russian:	поклонник
Slovak:	ctiteľ
Slovenian:	snubec
Spanish:	pretendiente
Swedish:	friare
Turkish:	âşık, bir kıza talip olan erkek

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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.

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