Courted vs Courter - What's the difference?

courted | courter |

As a verb courted

is (court).

As a noun courter is

one who courts; one who plays the lover, or solicits in marriage.

courted

English

Verb

(head)

(court)

court

English

Noun

(en noun)

An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.

* (1809-1892)

And round the cool green courts there ran a row / Of cloisters.

* (1800-1859)

Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court .

# A street with no outlet, a cul-de-sac.

(label) Royal society.

# The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

This our court , infected with their manners, / Shows like a riotous inn.

# The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you.

#* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)

Love rules the court , the camp, the grove.

# Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign.

#* (1800-1859)

The princesses held their court within the fortress.

Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

No solace could her paramour entreat / Her once to show, ne court , nor dalliance.

* (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)

I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle.

(label) The administration of law.

# The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.

# The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes.

#* {{quote-news, date=21 August 2012, first=Ed, last=Pilkington, newspaper=The Guardian

, title= Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die? , passage=Next month, Clemons will be brought before a court presided over by a "special master", who will review the case one last time. The hearing will be unprecedented in its remit, but at its core will be a simple issue: should Reggie Clemons live or die?}}

# A tribunal established for the administration of justice.

# The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.

# The session of a judicial assembly.

# Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.

(label) A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, squash, badminton, volleyball and some other games; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court.

*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5 , passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts' and the subsidiary ' courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}

Derived terms

* contempt of court * court case * court fight * court jester * courtroom * hold court * in court * out-of-court

Verb

(en verb)

To seek to achieve or win.

He was courting big new accounts that previous salesman had not attempted.

* Prescott

They might almost seem to have courted the crown of martyrdom.

* De Quincey

Guilt and misery court privacy and solitude.

To risk (a consequence, usually negative).

He courted controversy with his frank speeches.

To try to win a commitment to marry from.

* Shakespeare

If either of you both love Katharina / Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.

To engage in behavior leading to mating.

The bird was courting by making an elaborate dance.

To attempt to attract.

* Macaulay

By one person, hovever, Portland was still assiduously courted .

To attempt to gain alliance with.

To engage in activities intended to win someone's affections.

She's had a few beaus come courting .

To engage in courtship behavior.

In this season, you can see many animals courting .

To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.

* Tennyson

A well-worn pathway courted us / To one green wicket in a privet hedge.

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courter

English

Noun

(en noun)

One who courts; one who plays the lover, or solicits in marriage.

(Sherwood)

(Webster 1913)