SQUIRE
\skwˈa͡ɪ͡ə], \skwˈaɪə], \s_k_w_ˈaɪə]\
Definitions of SQUIRE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
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A square; a measure; a rule.
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A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
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A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See Esquire.
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A male attendant on a great personage; also (Colloq.), a devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
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A title of office and courtesy. See under Esquire.
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To attend as a squire.
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To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection; as, to squire a lady.
By Oddity Software
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Formerly, a shield bearer or armor-bearer of a knight; a male attendant on a great person; a prominent citizen, as a title of respect; an English landholder of old standing: a shortened form of esquire.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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An esquire; justice of the peace; lawyer or prominent citizen; attendant, as of a knight or of a lady.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A gentleman landlord or a country gentleman; a knights attendant; an esquire; a magistrate or lawyer; originally, according to Ruskin, a rider, a shield-bearer, and a carver.
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To attend as a squire; colloquially, to attend as a gallant. See Esquire.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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