DEBTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does debtor mean? 

• DEBTOR (noun)
  The noun DEBTOR has 1 sense:

1. a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt

  Familiarity information: DEBTOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEBTOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

debitor; debtor

Hypernyms ("debtor" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "debtor"):

deadbeat; defaulter (someone who fails to meet a financial obligation)

fly-by-night (a debtor who flees to avoid paying)

mortgager; mortgagor (the person who gives a mortgage in return for money to be repaid)

Antonym:

creditor (a person to whom money is owed by a debtor; someone to whom an obligation exists)

 Context examples 

You find her, Mr. Holmes, and I’m your debtor.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

““J. Steerforth, Esquire, debtor, to The Willing Mind”; that's not it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"You had made me eternally your debtor had you shaken out the flame," he said.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Touching the hundred thousand crowns in which I stand your debtor,” continued Pedro carelessly, “it can no doubt—”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The three men sprang in after him, a whip whistled in the darkness, and I had seen the last that I or any one else, save some charitable visitor to a debtors’ gaol, was ever again destined to see of Sir Lothian Hume, the once fashionable Corinthian.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All this I did; and when at last I did see a turnkey (poor little fellow that I was!), and thought how, when Roderick Random was in a debtors' prison, there was a man there with nothing on him but an old rug, the turnkey swam before my dimmed eyes and my beating heart.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They lived strange lives, these men, and they died strange deaths—some by their own hands, some as beggars, some in a debtor’s gaol, some, like the most brilliant of them all, in a madhouse in a foreign land.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We sat before a little fire, with two bricks put within the rusted grate, one on each side, to prevent its burning too many coals; until another debtor, who shared the room with Mr. Micawber, came in from the bakehouse with the loin of mutton which was our joint-stock repast.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Some future traveller, visiting, from motives of curiosity, not unmingled, let us hope, with sympathy, the place of confinement allotted to debtors in this city, may, and I trust will, Ponder, as he traces on its wall, inscribed with a rusty nail,

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)