Suppliant - English meaning

noun

A person who applies to a higher court for a reversal of the decision of a lower court.

Usage examples:

In the event, no evidence was given by the complainant or the appellant about these matters.

noun

Someone who appeals for a legal or official decision to be changed

Usage examples:

The jury acquitted the appellants on the conspiracy as it was originally charged.

noun

A person who makes a formal application for something, especially a job.

Usage examples:

Applicants for the degree course

noun

A person who formally requests something, such as a job or admission to a college or university

noun

Someone who has applied for a job, a place on a course, etc.

Usage examples:

Many applicants simply don't meet hiring requirements., the course is popular - it has five applica…

noun

A person, typically a homeless one, who lives by asking for money or food.

Usage examples:

How many times have you been asked in the street for some money from a seemingly homeless person or…

verb

Reduce (someone) to poverty.

Usage examples:

Why should i beggar myself for you?

noun

A poor person who lives by asking others for money or food

verb

Ask someone earnestly or humbly for something.

Usage examples:

He begged his fellow passengers for help

Present participle of beg

noun

A person who asks someone urgently and fervently to do or give something.

Usage examples:

Petitions, including those for cures of illness, will seemingly be granted or not according to the …

verb

Ask (someone) urgently and fervently to do something; implore; entreat.

Usage examples:

They beseeched him to stay

adjective

Showing in an emotional way that someone wants or needs something very much

Usage examples:

The children looked up at their father with beseeching eyes., her tone was at times beseeching, at …

noun

A person making a claim, especially in a lawsuit or for a state benefit.

Usage examples:

One in four eligible claimants failed to register for a rebate

noun

A person or company that requests or receives payment from an insurance company for an accident, illness, damage to property, etc.

Usage examples:

For medical malpractice insurance claims that we paid, fewer than 10% had a payout of $1 million or…

noun

A powerful desire for something.

Usage examples:

A craving for chocolate

verb

Feel a powerful desire for (something).

Usage examples:

If only she had shown her daughter the love she craved

noun

A strong or uncontrollable desire

Usage examples:

We had a craving for zucchini bread.

adjective

Expressing an earnest or anxious request; pleading.

Usage examples:

He gave her an entreating look

verb

Ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something.

Usage examples:

His friends entreated him not to go

adjective

Acting or done in an emotional way that shows that you very much want to persuade someone to do something

Usage examples:

She looked at him with entreating eyes as she sang., he spoke in an entreating voice, and it was ha…

adjective

Making an earnest or desperate appeal.

Usage examples:

An imploring look

verb

Beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something.

Usage examples:

He implored her to change her mind

adjective

Showing in a very sincere, emotional, and determined way that you want someone to do or not do something

Usage examples:

He had an imploring look in his eyes., she looked at his imploring face, and felt a stab of guilt.

noun

A person who presents a petition to an authority in respect of a particular cause.

Usage examples:

Petitioners gathered about 70,000 signatures for the initiative

noun

The action of making an emotional or earnest appeal to someone.

Usage examples:

He ignored her pleading

adjective

Making an emotional appeal.

Usage examples:

He gave her a pleading look

verb

Make an emotional appeal.

Usage examples:

She pleaded with them not to gag the boy

noun

A man who pursues a relationship with a particular woman, with a view to marriage.

Usage examples:

She decided to marry her suitor

noun

A man who wants a particular woman to agree to marry him

noun

A company that wants to buy another company

Usage examples:

A suitor for sth a german private equity firm is understood to be one of the suitors for the compan…

adjective

Making or expressing a plea, especially to someone in power or authority.

Usage examples:

A supplicant serf before an ill-tempered monarch

noun

A person making a humble or earnest plea to someone in power or authority.

Usage examples:

We are equals and not supplicants begging for work

noun

A person who asks a god or someone who is in a position of power for something in a humble way

verb

Ask or beg for something earnestly or humbly.

Usage examples:

The plutocracy supplicated to be made peers

verb

To ask for something in a humble way

Usage examples:

I knew i could not go on supplicating for more.