A Topical Dictionary: Search for squire

Dictionary Results For "squire" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Etymology

scutarius: a shield-bearer through Old French esquire through Middle English esquire.

Pronunciation

An audio transcript can be found at en-us-squire.ogg

:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-aɪə(r)|-aɪə(r)

Noun

A square; a measure; a rule.
A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
A male attendant on a great personage; also (Colloq.), a devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
A title of office and courtesy. See under esquire.

Translations

Finnish: aseenkantaja
German: Schildknappe , Knappe

Spanish: escudero

German: Kavalier

German: Galan

Verb

To attend as a squire
To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection

fa:squire fr:squire io:squire hu:squire te:squire vi:squire

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Squire \Squire\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. squired (skw[imac]rd); p.
pr. & vb. n. squiring.]
1. To attend as a squire. --Chaucer.
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2. To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection;
as, to squire a lady. [Colloq.] --Goldsmith.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Squire \Squire\ (skw[imac]r), n. [OF. esquierre, F. ['e]querre.
See Square, n.]
A square; a measure; a rule. [Obs.] "With golden squire."
--Spenser.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Squire \Squire\, n. [Aphetic form of esquire.]
1. A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
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2. A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above
gentleman. See Esquire. [Eng.] "His privy knights and
squires." --Chaucer.
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3. A male attendant on a great personage; also (Colloq.), a
devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
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4. A title of office and courtesy. See under Esquire.
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WordNet squire
n 1: young nobleman attendant on a knight
2: an English country landowner
3: a man who attends or escorts a woman [syn: gallant]
v : attend upon as a squire; serve as a squire

Moby Dictionary
Brahman , Casanova , Don Juan , Ganymede , Hebe , Lothario , Romeo ,
accompany , address , airline hostess , airline stewardess , amoroso ,
archduke , aristocrat , armiger , attend , attendant , baron , baronet ,
batman , beau , bellboy , bellhop , bellman , beneficiary , blue blood ,
bodyguard , bootblack , boots , boyfriend , caballero , cabin boy ,
caddie , cavalier , cavaliere servente , cestui , cestui que trust ,
cestui que use , chaperon , chase , chore boy , companion , conduct ,
conductor , convoy , copyboy , count , court , cupbearer , daimio ,
deedholder , duenna , duke , earl , errand boy , errand girl , escort ,
esquire , fellow , fellow traveler , feoffee , feudatory , flame ,
follow , footboy , gallant , gentleman , gigolo , go with , gofer ,
grand duke , grandee , guard , guide , hidalgo , hostess , householder ,
inamorato , lace-curtain , lady-killer , laird , landgrave , landholder ,
landlady , landlord , landowner , lay siege to , lead , lord , lordling ,
love-maker , magnate , magnifico , make suit to , man , margrave ,
marquis , marshal , master , mesne , mesne lord , mistress , necker ,
noble , nobleman , office boy , office girl , old man , optimate ,
orderly , owner , page , palsgrave , patrician , pay attention to ,
pay court to , peer , petter , philanderer , proprietary , proprietor ,
proprietress , proprietrix , pursue , rentier , safe-conduct , seducer ,
seigneur , seignior , serenade , sheik , shepherd , silk-stocking ,
spark , steward , stewardess , sue , sugar daddy , swain , sweetheart ,
swell , take , take out , tender , thoroughbred , titleholder ,
trainbearer , upper-cruster , usher , viscount , wait on , waldgrave ,
woo , yeoman , young man

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