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# suitor

«suitor» in Mova's school dictionary: **a man who wants to marry a particular woman and pays her…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (suitors)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A suitor is a man who wants to marry a particular woman and pays her attention to win her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suitor/#m1)

2) (old use) A suitor is a person who asks for something, a petitioner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suitor/#m2)

### sense 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suitor/#x1)
- Many suitors wanted her hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suitor/#x2)
- The suitor brought her a gift. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suitor/#x3)

### note

counting suitors is counting people; nothing else changes

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «suitor» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suitor/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.