Associations to the word «Suitor»

Wiktionary

SUITOR, noun. (legal) A party to a suit or litigation.
SUITOR, noun. One who sues, petitions, solicits, or entreats; a petitioner.
SUITOR, noun. One who sues for the hand of a woman in marriage; a wooer; one who courts a mistress.
SUITOR, verb. To play the suitor; to woo; to make love.

Dictionary definition

SUITOR, noun. A man who courts a woman; "a suer for the hand of the princess".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats