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say it: SOO-tur
suitor is a noun meaning "a man who courts a woman". It is pronounced /ˈsutɚ/ — SOO-tur. It carries one recorded sense.
a man who courts a woman
“a suer for the hand of the princess”
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for suitor come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.