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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Suitor \Suit"or\, noun
1. One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant.
She hath been a suitor to me for her brother. --Shak.
2. Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover. --Sir P. Sidney.
3. (a) (Law) One who sues or prosecutes a demand in court; a party to a suit, as a plaintiff, petitioner, etc. (b) (O. Eng. Law) One who attends a court as plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, appellant, witness, juror, or the like.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
suitor
noun: a man who courts a woman; "a suer for the hand of the princess" [syn: {suer}, {wooer}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "suitor": accessory, accusant, accuser, addict, admirer, adorer, allegator, amorist, appellant, applicant, asker, aspirant, aspirer, beau, beggar, bidder, boyfriend, candidate, cavalier, claimant, collector, complainant, coveter, defendant, delator, desirer, devotee, escort, fancier, follower, freak, gallant, hankerer, hopeful, impeacher, impugner, inamorato, indictor, infatuate, informer, libelant, litigant, litigationist, litigator, lover, man, panel, paramour, parties litigant, party, petitioner, plaintiff, postulant, prayer, prosecutor, pursuer, seeker, solicitant, solicitor, spark, sparker, suppliant, supplicant, supplicator, swain, the prosecution, votary, wanter, wisher, witness, wooer, yearner
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