Suitor synonyms

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suppliant
A supplicant.
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courter
One who courts; one who plays the lover, or solicits in marriage.
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admirer
One who admires.
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beseecher
A person who beseeches
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asker
Alternative form of ask ("an eft or newt").
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paramour (related)
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beau
(Dated) A male lover; a boyfriend.
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appellant
A party who appeals a court or administrative agency’s decision. See also appellee.
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appealer
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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boyfriend
A boy who is one's friend
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lover (related)
A couple who are in love with each other.
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wooer
A person who woos; suitor
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petitioner
The person presenting a petition to a court or other body in order to institute an equity hearing or to appeal from a judgment. The opponent in such a proceeding is known as the respondent.
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beggar
A person who begs, or asks for charity, esp. one who lives by begging; mendicant
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prayer
A humble and sincere request, as to God or a god
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supplicant
One who comes to humbly ask or petition
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sex (related)
Either of two divisions, male and female, into which most sexually reproducing organisms are grouped. Sex is usually determined by anatomy, the makeup of the sex chromosomes, and the type and amount of hormones produced. When the sex of an organism is determined by the sex chromosomes, males and females are generally produced in equal numbers. In other organisms, such as bees and wasps, in which females develop from fertilized eggs and males develop from unfertilized eggs, distribution of the sexes is unequal.
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ask (related)
(UK dialectal and Scotland) An eft; newt.
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law (related)
An impromptu or extralegal system of justice substituted for established judicial procedure:
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request (related)
A formal message requesting something.
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courtier (related)
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stepmother (related)
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swain
A lover or suitor
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suer
One who sues; a suitor.
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cuckold (related)
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gallant
(Now Rare) A high-spirited, stylish man
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  • If a suitor changed his mind, he forfeited the presents.

  • Her father wished her to marry a son of Philip IV., king of Spain, while her cousin, the elector palatine, Charles Louis, was also a suitor for her hand, but both proposals fell through and she became the wife of a Dutch prince, William, son of Frederick Henry, prince of Orange.

  • He corresponded frequently with Mary, but there being no hopes whatever of his restoration, and a new suitor being found in the duke of Norfolk, Mary demanded a divorce, on pleas which recall those of Henry VIII.

  • Already more than one suitor had made application for her hand, Ferdinand of Aragon, who ultimately became her husband, being among the number; for some little time she was engaged to his elder brother Charles, who died in 1461.

  • She was famed for her running, and would only consent to marry a suitor who could outstrip her in a race, the consequence of failure being death.

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