Petitioner

Definitions: Petitioner

Petitioner

Noun

1. One praying humbly for something: "a suppliant for her favors".

2. Someone who petitions a court for redress of a grievance or recovery of a right.

Date "petitioner" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Synonyms: Petitioner

Synonyms: suer (n), suppliant (n), supplicant (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Petitioner	Noun: petitioner, solicitor, applicant; suppliant, supplicant; suitor, candidate, claimant, postulant, aspirant, competitor, bidder; place hunter, pot hunter; prizer; seeker.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Petitioner

English words defined with "petitioner": besieger ♦ Requester ♦ solicitor. (references)

Specialty definitions using "petitioner": Optimist ♦ Pray. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Korea	If the company follows either the invalidation or cancellation action routes, the burden of proof lies with the petitioner. (references)
Trade	Georgia	To obtain a banking license, the petitioner has to apply to the NBG in writing and present notarized copies of its charter and other founding documents registered in court. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	OPTIMIST, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white. A pessimist applied to God for relief. "Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God. "No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that would justify them." "The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something -- the mortality of the optimist."
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Petitioner" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.32% of the time. "Petitioner" is used about 146 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.32%	145	26,217
Noun (proper)	0.68%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	146	N/A

Language		Translations for "petitioner"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		lutës (begging, beseeching, deprecatory, imploring, pleading, praying, precatory, suppliant, supplicant, supplicating, supplicatory), kërkues (applicant, beseeching, exacting, exactor, invocatory, loud, particular, postulant, prospector, searcher, solicitor, suitor, tracer). (various references)

Arabic		‏مقدم العريضة, ‏الملتمس (suitor), ‏المتوسل (prayer, suppliant). (various references)

Bulgarian		просител (applicant, pleader, suitor). (various references)

Chinese		请愿 (Petition). (various references)

Czech		žalobce (accuser, plaintiff, prosecutor, suitor), žadatel (applicant, claimant, pretender, solicitor). (various references)

Danish		underskriver (signer). (various references)

Dutch		adressant (applicant). (various references)

Esperanto		petskribinto (applicant). (various references)

Finnish		anoja (applicant). (various references)

French		pétitionnaire (petitionary), signataire de la pétition, requérant, le signataire, demandeur. (various references)

Frisian		beswierskriftskriuwer (applicant), adressant (applicant). (various references)

German		kläger (complainer, demander, demanders, libellant, plaintiff, plaintiffs, prosecuting party, prosecutor, suitor). (various references)

Greek		ικέτησ (suppliant, supplicant, supplicator), αιτών (applicant), αιτητήσ (applicant, applier). (various references)

Hebrew		מעתיר, עותר (supplicant). (various references)

Hungarian		folyamodó (appellant, aspirant, petitionary, suppliant, supplicant), keresetet benyújtó, kérvényező (petitionary, suppliant, supplicant), kérelmező (petitionary), felperes (claimant, complainant, demandant, demander, orator, plaintiff, pursuer, suitor). (various references)

Italian		supplicante (applicant, suppliant, supplicant), postulante (applicant, postulant), petente (applicant). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		請願者 , 訴願人 , 申立人 (complainant), 申し立て人 (complainant). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		そがんにん, せいがんしゃ (sighted person), もうしたてにん (complainant). (various references)

Korean		청원자. (various references)

Manx		aghinagh (appealing, client, invoker, petitioning, plaintiff, pleading, protester). (various references)

Pig Latin		etitionerpay

Portuguese		peticionário (claimant, suitor), suplicante (addresser, appealing, pleasant, suppliant, supplicant), requerente (applicant, claimant, suitor), que entrega uma petição, o signatario. (various references)

Romanian		petiţionar (suitor, suppliant, supplicant), solicitant (applicant, postulant, solicitant, suitor). (various references)

Russian		проситель (applicant, applier, asker, pleader, suitor, suppliant, supplicant), истец (claimant, complainant, demandant, plaintiff, plf plaintiff, pursuer, suitor). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		molilac (applicant, postulant). (various references)

Spanish		peticionario (claimant). (various references)

Swedish		supplikant (suppliant, supplicant), kärande i skillsmässoprocess. (various references)

Turkish		talep eden kimse, ricada bulunan kimse, dilekçe sahibi (suitor, suppliant, supplicant). (various references)

Ukranian		прохач (applicant, intercessor, prayer, solicitor, suitor, suppliant, supplicant), позивач (claimant, complainant, demandant, exactor, litigant, plaintiff, pursuer, suitor), петиціонер. (various references)

Vietnamese		người thỉnh cầu, người cầu xin (prayer). (various references)

Welsh		deisebydd, deisebwr. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "petitioner": petitioners. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Petitioner" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: petitional. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "petitioner" (pronounced puti"shuner)
6	-t i" sh u n er	practitioner.
5	-i" sh u n er	Commissioner, conditioner, parishioner.
4	-sh u n er	confectioner, executioner, freshener, pensioner, probationer, stationer, vacationer.
3	-u n er	bargainer, commoner, coroner, examiner, Falconer, fastener, foreigner, gardener, hardener, laminar, listener, mariner, milliner, oftener, opener, prisoner, questioner, reasoner, softener, stiffener, sweetener, thickener, Waggoner, Wagoner.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: repetition.
	Words within the letters "e-e-i-i-n-o-p-r-t-t"
	-2 letters: entrepot, intertie, petition, pointier, retinite, tenorite.
	-3 letters: introit, nettier, niterie, nitrite, nittier, pereion, pettier, pioneer, pointer, portent, potteen, pottier, proette, protein, ripieno, tentier, treetop, tritone, tropine.
	-4 letters: entire, intort, netter, norite, opener, orient, orpine, pereon, petite, petter, pinier, pinite, pitier, pointe, poteen, potent, potter, protei, pterin, reopen, repent, repine, retine, retint, rotten, tenter.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-i-i-n-o-p-r-t-t"
	+1 letter: petitioners, repetitions.
	+2 letters: interception, receptionist, repetitional.
	+3 letters: decrepitation, interceptions, interoceptive, interpolative, introspective, perfectionist, peritonitises, premeditation, receptionists, repartitioned, retinopathies.
	+4 letters: decrepitations, erythropoietin, interoperative, interpellation, interpretation, perfectionists, potentiometric, predestination, premeditations, pretermination.
	+5 letters: counterpetition, erythropoietins, experimentation, extemporisation, extemporization, hypertonicities, interoperatives, interpellations, interpretations, intraperitoneal, introspectively, perfectionistic, photosensitizer, plenipotentiary, predestinations, preregistration, preservationist, preterminations, repetitiousness.
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