suitor

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   One who pursues someone, especially a woman, for a romantic relationship or marriage; a wooer; one who falls in love with or courts someone.

   (Notice that "Lysias" begins from the realistic assumption that an attractive young man with many suitors will "gratify" one of them, the only question being which. Rightly or wrongly, he treats the question, "Shall I at all?" as already resolved.)

2. 2
   noun

   A person or organization that expresses an interest in working with, or taking over, another.

   […] and Mortimer asserted he had no shortage of suitors ready, willing, and able to make acquisition loans […]

3. 3
   noun

   a man who courts a woman

4. 4
   noun

   A party to a suit or litigation.

5. 5
   noun

   One who sues, petitions, solicits, or entreats; a petitioner.

6. 6
   verb

   To play the suitor; to woo; to make love.

Etymology

From Middle English sutour, from Anglo-Norman suytour, seuter, from Late Latin secutor (“follower, pursuer”).