petitioner

Noun

Meaning

One who presents a petition.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

requester plaintiff applicant complainant suitor supplicant suppliant pleader claimant suer appellant inquirer party challenger aspirant
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Antonyms

traditional square conventional server conservative predictable
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Hypernyms

plaintiff applicant complainant applier

Hyponyms

solicitor canvasser besieger postulant

Anagrams

repetition

Examples

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. Ambrose Bierce

How is this? Ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence? Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure. Margaret Cavendish

I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted. Toby Young

A generous prayer is never presented in vain the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation. Robert Louis Stevenson

If you are a leader of peace, listen to the discourse of the petitioner. Be not abrupt with him; that would trouble him. Egyptian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

petitionarily petitionary petitionee petitioning petitionist petitive