Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who woos.
- noun One who promotes the marriage of another; a match maker.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who wooes; one who courts or solicits in love; a suitor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun someone who
woos orcourts
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a man who courts a woman
Etymologies
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Examples
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The wooer was a Mr. Child, son of a brewer at Abingdon, to whom the lady sent a challenge.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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And as Evelyn Van Wyck fled through the sombre forest aisles before the too arduous advances of her slant-browed, skin-clad wooer, the door of the cabin opened, without the courtesy of a knock, and a skin-clad woman, savage and primitive, came in.
LI-WAN, THE FAIR 2010
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From Jennifer Love Hewitt to Jessica Simpson to Jennifer Aniston, this guy ` s a major wooer.
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Ever the wooer, George Clooney typifies the Hollywood bachelor that will pretty much make any woman melt.
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But wait until you hear the gorgeous "Some Enchanted Evening" and "This Nearly Was Mine" as sung by bass-baritone David Pittsinger, who portrays Emile de Becque, the smooth French wooer of the cockeyed American optimist, Ensign Nellie Forbush.
Smooth sailing Peter Marks 2010
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Ever the wooer, George Clooney typifies the Hollywood bachelor that will pretty much make any woman melt.
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Ever the wooer, George Clooney typifies the Hollywood bachelor that will pretty much make any woman melt.
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Ever the wooer, George Clooney typifies the Hollywood bachelor that will pretty much make any woman melt.
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You must act be a wooer, and not expect the board simply to warm up to you right away.
Advice To A New CEO: How To Handle Your Board Tom Wajnert 2009
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One quickly gets the sense of a heart breaking, heart broken, and relentless wooer of women.
The Twitterer: Lemon Hound talks to Arjun Basu Lemon Hound 2009
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