What is "suitors"

Usage examples of "suitors".

Colin thought the suitors seemed less like friends than like a pack of hounds tearing apart a doe, and he waited as long as he could to make his way through them to speak to her.

Daphne had been sitting with her suitors and cleared it out in under three seconds.

I may introduce you to no end of eligible men, but that is only because I would like you to have as many suitors as possible from which to choose a husband.

Mabel dropped her hands, arose, and stood face to face with her two suitors, though the flush that was on her cheeks was feverish, the evidence of excitement rather than of shame.

Robert, with great pride and equal lack of tact, boasted of her suitors and ruthlessly rejected them as unsuitable and inadequate.

I fear Her Majesty will have twenty and five suitors vying for your hand before this night is over.

Of course this had brought a host of eager suitors, not only from the immediate neighborhood, but from parts remote.