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Word: esquire (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A gentleman who attends or escorts a lady in public.
  • a lawyer
  • a male member of the gentry ranking below a knight
  • an honorific sometimes placed after a man's name
  • archaic a squire; a youth who in the hopes of becoming a knight attended upon a knight
  • heraldry A bearing somewhat resembling a gyron, but extending across the field so that the point touches the opposite edge of the escutcheon.
  • obsolete a shield-bearer, but also applied to other attendants.

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Verb:

  • obsolete To attend, wait on, escort.

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