Penelope for her Vliſſes ſake, / Deuiz'd a VVeb her vvooers to deceaue: / in vvhich the vvorke that ſhe all day did make / the ſame at night ſhe did againe vnreaue, […]
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Wooer
//ˈwuːə//
Synonyms for "wooer" (20 found)
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Translations
25 translations across 12 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- μνηστήρ noun (someone who woos or courts)
Dutch
1 entries- huwelijkskandidaat noun (someone who woos or courts)
Finnish
2 entries- kosija noun (someone who woos or courts)
- kosiskelija noun (someone who woos or courts)
German
4 entries- Bewerber noun (someone who woos or courts)
- Freier noun (someone who woos or courts)
- Liebeswerber noun (someone who woos or courts)
- Umwerber noun (someone who woos or courts)
Hungarian
1 entries- udvarló noun (someone who woos or courts)
Italian
4 entries- corteggiatore noun (someone who woos or courts)
- postulante noun (someone who woos or courts)
- pretendente noun (someone who woos or courts)
- richiedente noun (someone who woos or courts)
Korean
1 entries- 구애자 noun (someone who woos or courts)
Latin
1 entries- procus noun (someone who woos or courts)
Old English
1 entries- wōgere noun (someone who woos or courts)
Polish
2 entries- absztyfikant noun (someone who woos or courts)
- zalotnik noun (someone who woos or courts)
Russian
4 entries- кавале́р noun (someone who woos or courts)
- покло́нник noun (someone who woos or courts)
- покло́нница noun (someone who woos or courts)
- ухажёр noun (someone who woos or courts)
Tagalog
1 entries- manliligaw noun (someone who woos or courts)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Whiles we shut the gate upon one wooer, another knocks at the door.
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She wrote such a widow-like refusal when she went from me, as might not exclude hope in any other wooer; whatever it may do in Mr. Tony Harlowe.
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Sally Leadbitter was vulgar-minded to the last degree; never easy unless her talk was of love and lovers; in her eyes it was an honour to have had a long list of wooers.
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