suitor

Plural: suitors

Noun

• A man who pursues a relationship with a woman.
• 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.

Examples

• The tile bag was a cruel mistress, denying my SUITOR, the letter ’S’, to form a plural.

Synonyms

suer, wooer, 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, sweetheart, truelove, woo