'Debtor' definitions:

Definition of 'debtor'

noun

A person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt [syn: debtor, debitor] [ant: creditor]

From: GCIDE

Debtor \Debt"or\, n. [OE. dettur, dettour, OF. detor, detur, detour, F. d['e]biteur, fr. L. debitor, fr. debere to owe. See Debt.] One who owes a debt; one who is indebted; -- correlative to creditor. [1913 Webster]
[I 'll] bring your latter hazard back again, And thankfully rest debtor for the first. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
In Athens an insolvent debtor became slave to his creditor. --Mitford. [1913 Webster]
Debtors for our lives to you. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

Debtor Various regulations as to the relation between debtor and creditor are laid down in the Scriptures.
The debtor was to deliver up as a pledge to the creditor what he could most easily dispense with (Deut. 24:10, 11).
A mill, or millstone, or upper garment, when given as a pledge, could not be kept over night (Ex. 22:26, 27).
A debt could not be exacted during the Sabbatic year (Deut. 15:1-15).
For other laws bearing on this relation see Lev. 25:14, 32, 39; Matt. 18:25, 34.
A surety was liable in the same way as the original debtor (Prov. 11:15; 17:18).