admirer:

1. A person who holds someone or something in high regard.
Synonyms: adherent; believer; buff ; devotee; disciple; enthusiast; fan; fancier; follower; freak ; junkie; partisan; patron ; rooter ; supporter .

2. In the language of yesteryears , a man who courts a woman , a male suitor.
Synonyms: beau; flame ; lover ; suitor; swain; sweetheart ; wooer.

Quotes Containing admirer:
An admirer and Cleo Borden (Mae West) in Goin'' to Town (1935): - Admirer: ''Where have I seen your face before?'' - Cleo Borden: ''Same place you see it now.''
Capt. Henri Rochard (Cary Grant) and Lt. Catherine Gates (Ann Sheridan) speaking of her admirer in I Was a Male War Bride (1949): - Henri: ''Why did you say I run-after everything in skirts?'' - Catherine: ''I didn''t.'' - Henri: ''You did.'' - Catherine: ''I said anything.'' - Henri: ''American women!''

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