3 February 2017
suitor
[soo-ter]
noun
1. a man who courts or woos a woman.
2. Law. a petitioner or plaintiff.
3. a person who sues or petitions for anything.
4. Informal. an individual who seeks to buy a business.
Origin of suitor
Latin, Middle English, Anglo-French
1250-1300; Middle English s (e) utor, suitour < Anglo-French < Latin secūtor, equivalent to secū-, variant stem of sequī to follow + -tor -tor
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Examples from the Web for suitor
Contemporary Examples
When Cato still refused, the suitor then asked Cato for Cato’s own wife.
Who Was the Real Cato?
David Frum
December 19, 2012
I find both “admirer” and “ suitor ” to be presumptuous and one-sided.
What Should I Call the Man I Love?
Dushka Zapata
November 17, 2014
Soni and Goodman attribute the complicated story to the shared Stoic philosophy of Cato and the suitor.
Who Was the Real Cato?
David Frum
December 19, 2012
Historical Examples
One child advances as “ suitor,” and says the three first verses.
The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol I of II)
Alice Bertha Gomme
In reality, Madeleine had entirely forgotten her suitor and his letter.
Fairy Fingers
Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
It was a love-scene, and rather of an impassioned character; Villebecque was her suitor.
Coningsby
Benjamin Disraeli
Julien was by no means the only suitor who pressed for the honour of dancing with Estelle.
Chatterbox, 1906
Various
The suitor had to bribe every one, from the doorkeeper to the pope, or his case was lost.
History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
John William Draper
She had had an Insurrecto general for a suitor, and had turned him down.
The Great White Tribe in Filipinia
Paul T. Gilbert
It has the advantage of enabling a suitor to reckon as well as to admire the objects of his affection.
Eothen
A. W. Kinglake
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Today’s quote
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
– Federico Fellini
On this day
3 February 1830 – Greece achieves full independence from the Ottoman Empire following Great Britain, France and Russia agreeing to the London Protocol (1830). This followed on from Greece obtaining internal autonomy through the London Protocol (1829) on 22 March 1829. The borders of Greece were finalised in the London Conference of 1832.
3 February 1904 – birth of Charles Arthur ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd, American gangster. Shot to death by FBI agents in Ohio on 22 October 1934.
3 February 1919 – Inaugural meeting of the League of Nations (the predecessor of the United Nations), which was headed by US President Woodrow Wilson, aimed at promoting world peace and security.
3 February 1959 – ‘The Day the Music Died’. Plane crash during a storm near Clear Lake, Iowa, claims the lives of some of America’s finest rock and roll stars: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson). The pilot, Roger Peterson, also died. Another rock star, Dion Di Mucci, decided not to board the plane. The stars had performed at Clear Lake as part of ‘The Winter Dance Party Tour’ and were on their way to the next venue. Don McLean’s iconic song ‘American Pie’ paid homage to the tragedy, declaring it the ‘Day the Music Died’.
3 February 1966 – The Soviet Union achieves the first moon landing when the unmanned Lunix 9 spacecraft touches down on the moon’s Ocean of Storms area.