suitor

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈsuːtə/|/ˈsjuːtə/    美 /ˈsutɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who pursues someone, especially a woman, for a romantic relationship or marriage; a wooer; one who falls in love with or courts someone.
    — (Notice that "Lysias" begins from the realistic assumption that an attractive young man with many suitors will "gratify" one of them, the only question being which. Rightly or wrongly, he treats the question, "Shall I at all?" as already resolved.)
  2. A person or organization that expresses an interest in working with, or taking over, another. broadly
    — […] and Mortimer asserted he had no shortage of suitors ready, willing, and able to make acquisition loans […]
  3. A party to a suit or litigation.
  4. One who sues, petitions, solicits, or entreats; a petitioner.
动词 v.
  1. To play the suitor; to woo; to make love.

词形变化

suitors plural suitour alternative suitors present,singular,third-person suitoring participle,present suitored participle,past suitored past suitour alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
cosuitor suitoress suitorless suitorship suitress

词源

词源 1
From Middle English sutour, from Anglo-Norman suytour, seuter, from Late Latin secutor (“follower, pursuer”).
词源 2
From Middle English sutour, from Anglo-Norman suytour, seuter, from Late Latin secutor (“follower, pursuer”).
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