suitor
noun/ˈsuːtə(r)/
/ˈsuːtər/
- (old-fashioned) a man who wants to marry a particular woman
- He was an ardent suitor.
- In the play, the heroine has to choose between three suitors.
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- (business) a company that wants to buy another company
- a merger proposal from an unwanted suitor
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘member of a retinue’): from Anglo-Norman French seutor, from Latin secutor, from sequi ‘follow’.
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