suitor
noun (suitors)
Everyday
- A suitor is a man who wants to marry a particular woman and pays her attention to win her. tree →
- (old use) A suitor is a person who asks for something, a petitioner. tree →
In the lessons
in fairy tales, a young man who comes to woo a princess or a girl
Examples
- A suitor came to woo the princess. tree →
- Many suitors wanted her hand. tree →
- The suitor brought her a gift. tree →
Note
counting suitors is counting people; nothing else changes
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «suitor» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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