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suitor definition

suitor (so̵̅o̅t′ər)

noun

  1. a person who requests, petitions, or entreats
  2. a person who sues at law
  3. a man courting or wooing a woman
  4. a corporation, investor group, etc. seeking to acquire a company, as by a takeover

Etymology: ME sutere < Anglo-Fr seutor < L secutor < secutus, pp. of sequi, to follow: see sequent

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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