debtor Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet


Debt"or noun
Etymology
OE. dettur, dettour, OF. detor, detur, detour, F. débiteur, fr. L. debitor, fr. debere to owe. See Debt.
Definitions
  1. One who owes a debt; one who is indebted; -- correlative to creditor.
    [I 'll] bring your latter hazard back again, And thankfully rest debtor for the first. Shak.
    In Athens an insolvent debtor became slave to his creditor. Mitford.
    Debtors for our lives to you. Tennyson.

Webster 1913