suitor

英语

其他形式

• suitour (弃用)

词源

源自中古英语 sutour，源自盎格鲁-诺曼语 suytour、seuter，源自晚期拉丁语 secutor (“跟随者，追求者”)。

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助)：/ˈsuːtə(ɹ)/, /ˈsjuːtə(ɹ)/

• 音频（英国南部）：

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• 韵部：-uːtə(ɹ)

名词

suitor (复数 suitors)

1. 追求者，求爱者，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、接洽或收购者
   • 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) 起诉者
4. 请愿者，恳求者

动词

suitor (第三人称单数简单现在时 suitors，现在分词 suitoring，一般过去时及过去分词 suitored)

1. 追求，求爱，求婚

参考资料

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

异序词

• turios