[
US
/ˈsutɝ/
]
[ UK /sˈuːtɐ/ ]
[ UK /sˈuːtɐ/ ]
NOUN
-
a man who courts a woman
a suer for the hand of the princess
How To Use suitor In A Sentence
- As in Homer, after further tribulation, he will eventually reach Ithaca, kill Penelope's suitors, and live with wife and son until a peaceful death in old age.
- She called her suitor "Isidore:" this, however, she intimated was not his real name, but one by which it pleased her to baptize him Villette
- Why limit yourself to dealing with a single lender, when there are so many eager suitors for your business?
- It deals with two women who reject their suitors because they've decided they want to marry men who are more fashionable, affected and accustomed to courtly manners.
- He was billeted at her home where her seven brothers had hitherto protected her from any approach by potential suitors.
- Will that put off potential suitors in this January transfer window? The Sun
- In one episode from the show, the heroine Ola is introduced to what seems to be the perfect suitor. In a TV comedy, Egyptian women gain a voice on marriage
- The deal has set the hares running in the industry and some investors are betting a rival suitor, possibly from the US, will enter the fray with a higher offer.
- Ebookers admitted in September that it had been holding takeover talks with a number of potential suitors.
- Fairfax tells me that he is a suitor, eager to lay claim to a girl who is now only eleven.