suitor, suer, wooer
(noun) a man who courts a woman; “a suer for the hand of the princess”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
suitor (plural suitors)
One who pursues someone, especially a woman, for marriage; a wooer; one who courts someone.
(law) A party to a suit or litigation.
One who sues, petitions, solicits, or entreats; a petitioner.
suitor (third-person singular simple present suitors, present participle suitoring, simple past and past participle suitored)
To play the suitor; to woo; to make love.
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Source: Wiktionary
Suit"or, n.
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
