suitor

noun suit·or \ ˈsü-tər \

|Updated on: 22 Jun 2018

Examples: suitor in a Sentence

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

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Examples of suitor in a Sentence

He was her most persistent suitor, and she eventually agreed to marry him.
An unwanted suitor is buying up the company's stock.

Recent Examples of suitor from the Web

That’s because The Bachelorette has become the darkness, as disturbing detail after disturbing detail is leaked to the public about Becca Kufrin’s many suitors.

— refinery29.com, "Has The Real World Completely Ruined The Bachelorette Fantasy?," 19 June 2018
Producers, directors, and writers should understand that viewers today are enlisting a decision-making heuristic similar to the one Seinfeld’s Elaine Benes used to determine which suitors deserved her limited supply of contraceptive sponges.

— daniel h. pink, The Atlantic, "The Future of Television Is Being Able to Pick Shows by Length," 11 June 2018
Bureaucrats running the divestment process had expected many suitors.

— The Economist, "Plans to privatise India’s flag-carrier have run into turbulence," 9 June 2018
WellCare’s main business lines are areas that should attract larger suitors.

— charley grant, WSJ, "Clean Bill of Health for Insurance Deals," 30 May 2018
The 28-year-old publicist from Minnesota will look for love among 28 suitors in the ABC reality love competition.

— zoe szathmary, Fox News, "'Bachelorette' Becca Kufrin: 5 fast facts about the Minnesota reality star," 23 May 2018
He had originally committed to Texas before flipping to Purdue over a list of suitors that included programs like Alabama and Ohio State.

— gentry estes, The Courier-Journal, "Rondale Moore has 'every opportunity to play' as a freshman at Purdue," 23 May 2018
Veronica's suitor reveals that Poppa Poutine's son is looking for revenge, and everyone is under the impression that Archie made his bones by killing Poutine.

— amy mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR, "Riverdale Season 2 Episode 20: The Black Hood Returns and the Serpents Aren't Safe," 3 May 2018
But in Scandal, show creator Shonda Rhimes made a black woman’s primary suitors powerful white men.

— kara brown, The Cut, "Olivia Pope Was Helen of Troy," 19 Apr. 2018

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Origin and Etymology of suitor

Middle English sutour, suytour, follower, petitioner, from Anglo-French siuter, suytour, from Latin secutor follower, from sequi to follow — more at sue

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First Known Use: 15th century

in the meaning defined at sense 1

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