SUITOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suitor mean? 

• SUITOR (noun)
  The noun SUITOR has 1 sense:

1. a man who courts a woman

  Familiarity information: SUITOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUITOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man who courts a woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

suer; suitor; wooer

Context example:

a suer for the hand of the princess

Hypernyms ("suitor" is a kind of...):

admirer; adorer (someone who admires a young woman)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "suitor"):

prince charming (a suitor who fulfills the dreams of his beloved)

 Context examples 

But one of the good qualities which old Mr Fox had possessed, was always lacking, and the cat had continually to send the suitors away.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Her three suitors all bore the marks of her teeth.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She had not thought her old friend could have made so indifferent a suitor.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Miss Lavinia, as I have said, resumed: You ask permission of my sister Clarissa and myself, Mr. Copperfield, to visit here, as the accepted suitor of our niece.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

‘Yes, I knew him well, in fact, he was an old suitor of mine.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

However, had they been married, they would no doubt by their severity as husbands have made up for their softness as suitors; and so will you, I fear.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Her first proposal would have to be deferred to a more propitious time and a more eligible suitor.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The thing to do was clearly to bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady’s mind and prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to come.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Know then that this man has been a suitor for my hand, less as I think for my own sweet sake than because he hath ambition and had it on his mind that he might improve his fortunes by dipping into my father's strong box—though the Virgin knows that he would have found little enough therein.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When old Mr Fox was dead, the wolf came as a suitor, and knocked at the door, and the cat who was servant to Mrs Fox, opened it for him.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)