Synonyms for debtor

Grammar : Noun

Spell : det-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɛt ər

Définition of debtor

Origin : early 13c., dettur, dettour, from Old French detour, from Latin debitor "a debter," from past participle stem of debere; see debt. The -b- was restored in later French, and in English c.1560-c.1660. The KJV has detter three times, debter three times, debtor twice and debtour once.

noun purchaser

Example sentences :

When he was overpowered by these fits, the debtor often turned it for him.
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

She had nothing to reproach him with; on the contrary, she felt she was his debtor.
Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola

We have paid our debts; we have become a creditor rather than a debtor nation.
Extract from : « Latin America and the United States » by Elihu Root

No man lives in freedom anywhere on earth who is not his debtor and his follower.
Extract from : « Latin America and the United States » by Elihu Root

But Blake was playing for a fortune, for shelter from a debtor's prison.
Extract from : « Mistress Wilding » by Rafael Sabatini

I had been told that the goods were not the debtor's, but belonged to someone else.
Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

The cow, they said, was a neighbour's, who had 'lent' it to my debtor.
Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

Such a person is more likely to be a creditor than a debtor to society.
Extract from : « Rural Life and the Rural School » by Joseph Kennedy

Is he your debtor for what he ought, but never means, to pay?
Extract from : « Roland Cashel » by Charles James Lever

"A credit to his parents, but a debtor to his tailor," broke in a third.
Extract from : « Confessions Of Con Cregan » by Charles James Lever

Antonyms for debtor

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