其他形式

• (弃用)

词源

源自中古英語 ，源自盎格魯-諾曼語 、，源自晚期拉丁語 (“跟隨者，追求者”)。

发音

• 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈsuːtə(ɹ)/, /ˈsjuːtə(ɹ)/

• 音频（英国南部）：

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• 韻部：-uːtə(ɹ)

名词

(複數)

1. 追求者，求愛者，求婚者
   • 1999, Martha Craven Nussbaum, Sex and Social Justice (ISBN 9780195110326), page 316:

     (Notice that "Lysias" begins from the realistic assumption that an attractive young man with many suitors will "gratify" one of them, the only question being which. Rightly or wrongly, he treats the question, "Shall I at all?" as already resolved.)

2. (引申) 有意合作、接洽或收購者
   • 2016, Gary D. McGugan, Three Weeks Less a Day (page 43)

     […] and Mortimer asserted he had no shortage of suitors ready, willing, and able to make acquisition loans […]

3. (法律) 起訴者
4. 請願者，懇求者

动词

(第三人稱單數簡單現在時，現在分詞，一般過去時及過去分詞)

1. 追求，求愛，求婚

参考资料

• “suitor”, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587

异序词