suitor
Speech parts
1. suitor - Noun
2. suitor - Verb
Meaning
One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant.
Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover.
One who sues or prosecutes a demand in court; a party to a suit, as a plaintiff, petitioner, etc.
One who attends a court as plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, appellant, witness, juror, or the like.
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Abbott (2007), pp. 70–71 Ada was also very much taken with the gold leaf piano in the Club and once claimed she rejected a suitor because he disapproved of the piano.
Arkell, p. 19; Van der Kiste, p. 15. For her part, Caroline was not fooled by the prince's disguise, and found her suitor attractive.
As the story unfolds, the object of his affection, Laura Lorenzini, engaged to him, breaks off her engagement, and ends up marrying a 'better suitor'.
And it actually gives them something to think about in the short-term, as they face a 24-hour turnaround before facing the New Orleans Pelicans, another eighth-seed suitor.
'Bachelorette' suitor involved in car wreck after COVID-19.
By contrast, arias in opera buffa (comic opera) were often specific in character to the nature of the character being portrayed (for example the cheeky servant-girl or the irascible elderly suitor or guardian).