suitor

Meanings

Plural: suitors

Noun

• a man who courts a woman
• One who pursues someone, especially a woman, for a romantic relationship or marriage; a wooer; one who falls in love with or courts someone.
• A person or organization that expresses an interest in working with, or taking over, another.
• A party to a suit or litigation.
• One who sues, petitions, solicits, or entreats; a petitioner.

Verb

• To play the suitor; to woo; to make love.

Synonyms

address, admirer, adorer, applicant, baby, beau, bedear, beloved, chase after, claimant, court, courter, crush, darling, enamorado, endear, flame, follower, leman, litigant, loteby, love, love interest, lover, make love, paramour, pitch woo, plaintiff, pursuer, put the moves on, romance, solicit, spark, sparker, suer, sweetheart, truelove, woo, wooer