Squire
[skwaɪə] or ['skwaɪr]
Definition
(noun.) an English country landowner.
(noun.) young nobleman attendant on a knight.
(noun.) a man who attends or escorts a woman.
(verb.) attend upon as a squire; serve as a squire.
Typist: Moira--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A square; a measure; a rule.
(n.) A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
(n.) A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See Esquire.
(n.) A male attendant on a great personage; also (Colloq.), a devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
(n.) A title of office and courtesy. See under Esquire.
(v. t.) To attend as a squire.
(v. t.) To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection; as, to squire a lady.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Esquire.
Edited by ELLA
Definition
n. (Shak.) a square.
n. an esquire a knight's attendant: a beau or gallant: a country gentleman an owner of land in England esp. if of old family: (U.S.) one who has been a justice of the peace &c.—ns. Squire′age Squire′archy landed gentry collectively.—adj. Squire′archal.—ns. Squireen′ a gentleman farmer one almost a squire; Squire′hood the state or rank of a squire—also Squire′ship.—adjs. Squire′-like Squire′ly like or becoming a squire.—ns. Squire′ling a squire of small possessions; Squireoc′racy government by the landed classes; Squīr′ess a squire's wife.
Editor: Orville
Examples
- The mill shall find salaries for a master and mistress, and the squire or the clothier shall give a treat once a quarter. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Well, then, we'll all go ahead and buy up niggers, said the man, if that's the way of Providence,--won't we, Squire? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- A task too strong for wizard spells This squire had brought about; 'T is easy dropping stones in wells, But who shall get them out? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I am only a simple Norfolk squire, but there is not a man in England who ranks his family honour more highly than I do. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The Disinherited Knight then addressed his discourse to Baldwin, the squire of Brian de Bois-Guilbert. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It was less of her I would speak, said he, than of Prince John; and I would fain know somewhat of a faithful squire, and why he now attends me not? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- There are at least two hundred men assembled in the woods, answered a squire who was in attendance. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Squires of the Boar! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She had flirted with all the marriageable officers whom the depots of her country afforded, and all the bachelor squires who seemed eligible. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- My ancestors were country squires, who appear to have led much the same life as is natural to their class. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The proud mother's world was not their world of Harley Street gentilities on the one hand, or country clergymen and Hampshire squires on the other. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Lastly, he laid aside his shield, which had received some little damage, and received another from his squires. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Squires, pages, and yeomen in rich liveries, waited around this place of honour, which was designed for Prince John and his attendants. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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