Definitions for suitor

suitor suit·or

Spelling: [soo-ter]
IPA: /ˈsu tər/

Suitor is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 122 anagrams from letters in suitor (iorstu).

Definitions for suitor

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 of suitor

1250-1300; Middle English s(e)utor, suitour Anglo-French Latin secūtor, equivalent to secū-, variant stem of sequī to follow + -tor -tor

Examples for suitor

I find both “admirer” and “suitor” to be presumptuous and one-sided.

Soni and Goodman attribute the complicated story to the shared Stoic philosophy of Cato and the suitor.

When Cato still refused, the suitor then asked Cato for Cato's own wife.

Otherwise, should I not have married some other suitor, of whom there have been plenty?

The suitor was required to make presents to the bride's family.

Had not her uncle brought him declaredly as a suitor to her?

There was no hurry, Ethel had told him so frankly, no other suitor being in the running.

And the suitor, my dear, was the kind of man who could endure that kind of people.

They have made him responsible to a realm of shadows, and a suitor in a court of shades.

Will you permit a gentleman, sir, to offer himself as a suitor to your daughter?

Word Value for suitor
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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