noun
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One who pursues someone, especially a woman, for marriage; a wooer; one who courts someone.
definition
A party to a suit or litigation.
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One who sues, petitions, solicits, or entreats; a petitioner.
verb
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To play the suitor; to woo; to make love.
Examples of suitors in a Sentence
One of the suitors of Helen, he accompanied his father to the Trojan War.
From this time suitors in this court were not put to the expense and inconvenience of following the king from place to place.
In 1608 she appeared at court, where her beauty soon attracted admiration and became the theme of the poets, her suitors including the dauphin, Maurice, prince of Orange, Gustavus Adolphus, Philip III.
According to Thomas Moore, Lord Edward Fitzgerald was the only one of the numerous suitors of Sheridan's first wife whose attentions were received with favour; and it is certain that, whatever may have been its limits, a warm mutual affection subsisted between the two.
The justices of 1194 were to order the election of four coroners by the suitors of each county court.
Various suitors for her hand were proposed, including Henry IV.
They also recognize foreign consuls as representative suitors for absent foreigners.
She returned in 1521 or 1522 to England, where she had many admirers and suitors.
Their importance is shown by the fact that Cleisthenes, tyrant of Sicyon, gave his daughter Agariste in marriage to the Alcmaeonid Megacles in preference to all the assembled suitors after the undignified behaviour of Hippocleides.
According to one of them, the first race was that between Pelops and Oenomaus, who used to challenge the suitors of his daughter Hippodameia and then slay them.
Phemius pleases the suitors by singing of the calamitous return of the Greeks; Demodocus sings of a quarrel between Ulysses and Achilles, and afterwards of the wooden horse and the capture of Troy.
Buckingham, notwithstanding the advice he had received from Bacon himself, was in the habit of addressing letters to him recommending the causes of suitors.
In four cases specifically, and in some others by implication, Bacon confesses that he had received bribes from suitors pendente lite.
She stared up at him defiantly ignoring his reference to the countless nonexistent suitors.
The gifting of the necklace was like a proposal, only much more to the Guardians who gave the symbols of their families and histories to their chosen suitors.
Despite an expected flurry of suitors, Reading's bid for the Bermudan was the first one the Manchester side had received.
An effect of particular note was the blood stains on stage after Odysseus had killed the suitors.
She was besieged by royal suitors, each of whom she favored when it was in her political interest to do so.
Today, our would-be suitors would almost certainly have met online.
The noble suitors crowded round him speaking words of respect while plotting evil in the depths of their hearts.
Cameron Diaz also admits to being the kind of former L.A. club girl who used to torture prospective male suitors at will.
Energy Group agreed to the bid, but rival suitors may not be deterred.
Is there ever a nice way of putting off potential suitors?
Over and above the authority delegated to the ordinary councils or courts, a reserve of judicial power was believed to reside in the king, which was invoked as of grace by the suitors who could not obtain relief from any inferior tribunal.
Mr Laurence Gomme (Primitive Folk-Moots, pp. 1 55, 156) takes up the matter at this point, and places the tradition implied by Cade's significant action as belonging to times when the London Stone was, as other great stones were, the place where the suitors of an open-air assembly were accustomed to gather together and to legislate for the government of the city.
Living in the grossly animal court of the empress Elizabeth, bound to a husband whom she could not but despise and detest, surrounded by suitors, and entirely uninfluenced by religion, Catherine became and remained perfectly immoral in her sexual relations to men.
Then father and son, aided by Eumaeus and Philoetius, slew or drove out the suitors of Penelope (see Odysseus).
And look, here come her suitors.
She saw the coldness and malevolence with which the old prince received and dismissed the young men, possible suitors, who sometimes appeared at their house.
The noble Suitors crowded round him speaking words of respect while plotting evil in the depths of their hearts.
If necessary public funding should be made available to allow this to happen in the form of a ' suitors fund '.
She did n't try to show off by not taking any one of the suitors ' hands, but treated them all equally.
Suitors The suitors for the hand of Penelope, lords of the lands neighboring on Ithaca.
The novel merges humor with poignancy as Birdy fends off a variety of suitors and attempts to express her strong-minded personality despite the social constraints of the time in which she lives.
It could be that your're cautious, or perhaps you've read too many horror stories about online dates gone wrong, and you want to screen your suitors carefully.
She rejected both her would be suitors, leaving them broken hearted and her alone.
The program was a typical dating show, during which female suitors faced elimination one by one until only a single bachelorette was left.
Single Chinese women often wore a single peony either in their hair or pinned to their clothing, believing the peony was a kind of love potion to potential suitors.
This can be the perfect site for a woman who doesn't want to be bombarded with suitors, but is more selective.
The person asking the questions was not allowed to see the potential dates, so the decision was made based solely on the responses to the questions and the sound of the suitors' voices.
The Flying Kiss involves players throwing kisses to intended suitors while simultaneously trying to avoid obstacles.
These erstwhile suitors are the subject of comedies from Shakespeare to Friends, and yet the fact is that it is a reality.
In Victorian times it was a subtle sign to other potential suitors that the young lady was no longer available.
This can be seductive as potential suitors attempt to unravel the clandestine thoughts of their Scorpio.
Airing in 1999, Rosalinda told the story of a young girl from a good family torn between two suitors.
In addition to Elena, Dobrev also portrays Katherine Pierce, a five hundred year old vampire and maker of Elena's suitors Damon (Somerhalder) and Stefan (Paul Wesley).
Instead of lining up possible suitors for her young charge, Blair takes her to a charity ball.
Most men and women with full body tattoos find their potential suitors have opted for the same form of self-expression.
If you want to be left alone by potential suitors, one bra hazard is letting details slip out.
The open cups provide both a sexy outline and a provocative silhouette for suitors and for fashion purposes the same.