| Library / English Dictionary |
SUITOR
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A man who courts a woman
Example:
a suer for the hand of the princess
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("suitor" is a kind of...):
admirer; adorer (someone who admires a young woman)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "suitor"):
prince charming (a suitor who fulfills the dreams of his beloved)
Context examples:
Miss Oliver is ever surrounded by suitors and flatterers: in less than a month, my image will be effaced from her heart.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Altogether, I have never, on any occasion, made one at such a cosey, dosey, old-fashioned, time-forgotten, sleepy-headed little family-party in all my life; and I felt it would be quite a soothing opiate to belong to it in any character—except perhaps as a suitor.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Then she played and sang to him, while he gazed with hungry yearning at her, drinking in her loveliness and marvelling that there should not be a hundred suitors listening there and longing for her as he listened and longed.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Whilst Chandos had been conversing with the two knights a continuous stream of suitors had been ushered in, adventurers seeking to sell their swords and merchants clamoring over some grievance, a ship detained for the carriage of troops, or a tun of sweet wine which had the bottom knocked out by a troop of thirsty archers.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When it became known that the old fox was dead, suitors presented themselves.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I would advise her blackaviced suitor to look out: if another comes, with a longer or clearer rent-roll,—he's dished—But, mother, I did not come to hear Mr. Rochester's fortune: I came to hear my own; and you have told me nothing of it.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Not long after a suitor appeared, and as he appeared to be very rich and the miller could see nothing in him with which to find fault, he betrothed his daughter to him.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Many had already made the attempt, but in vain; nevertheless when the youth saw the king’s daughter he was so overcome by her great beauty that he forgot all danger, went before the king, and declared himself a suitor.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Once upon a time the king held a great feast, and asked thither all her suitors; and they all sat in a row, ranged according to their rank—kings, and princes, and dukes, and earls, and counts, and barons, and knights.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
