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French
Pronunciation
Participle
prétendant
- present participle of prétendre
Noun
prétendant m (plural prétendants, feminine prétendante)
- suitor, wooer
1877, Marius Roux, Eugénie Lamour, page 237:Leurs petites rentes les rendaient exigeants et les poussaient à rêver pour leur fille unique un prétendant extraordinaire.- Their small income made them exacting and pushed them to dream of an extraordinary suitor for their only daughter.
- contender
- claimant
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