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Definition: Squire |
SquireNoun1. Young nobleman attendant on a knight. 2. (British) an English country landowner. 3. A man who attends or escorts a woman. Verb1. Attend upon as a squire; serve as a squire. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "squire" was first used: sometime around 1225. (references) |
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Health | Spontaneous alternate contraction and dilation of the pupil, indicative of basilar meningitis. (references) |
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Synonym: SquireSynonym: gallant (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Aid | Second, stand by; back, back up; pay the piper, abet; work for, make interest for, stick up for, take up the cudgels for; take up the cause of, espouse the cause of, adopt the cause of; advocate, beat up for recruits, press into the service; squire, give moral support to, keep in countenance, countenance, patronize; lend oneself to, lend one's countenance to; smile upon, shine upon; favor, befriend, take in hand, enlist under the banners of; side with; (cooperate). |
Nobility | Peer, peerage; house of lords, house of peers; lords, lords temporal and spiritual; noblesse; noble, nobleman; lord, lordling; grandee, magnifico, hidalgo; daimio, daimyo, samurai, shizoku; don, donship; aristocrat, swell, three-tailed bashaw; gentleman, squire, squireen, patrician, laureate. |
Servant | Verb: serve; wait upon, attend upon, dance attendance upon, pin oneself upon; squire, tend, hang on the sleeve of; chore. |
Attendant, squire, usher, page, donzel, footboy; train bearer, cup bearer; waiter, lapster, butler, livery servant, lackey, footman, flunky, flunkey, valet, valet de chambre; equerry, groom; jockey, hostler, ostler, tiger, orderly, messenger, cad, gillie, herdsman, swineherd; barkeeper, bartender; bell boy, boots, boy, counterjumper; khansamah, khansaman; khitmutgar; yardman. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Squire |
| English words defined with "squire": armiger, armor-bearer ♦ Donzel ♦ Squier, squired, Squireen, Squirehood, squireling, Squirely, squiring. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "squire": Ague-cheek, April Squire, Atin ♦ Coverley ♦ Guadiana ♦ Hackum, Hudibras ♦ Ill Omens ♦ Knight of the Cloak ♦ Long Tail ♦ Public-house Signs ♦ Roger, Ropes ♦ Sancho Panza, She Stoops to Conquer, SIR TIMOTHY, Squire of Dames. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "squire": Squireen. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Squire" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (squire), Manx (esquire, squire). |
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Screenplays | Spoken like a faithful squire. (The Lost World; writing credit: Alison Lea Bingeman) All right, you're a squire. How does a squire squire (Man of La Mancha; writing credit: Dale Wasserman) I shall impersonate a man. His name is Alonso Quijana, a country squire no longer young (Man of La Mancha; writing credit: Dale Wasserman) | |
Lyrics | Seranade the weekend squire, who just came out to mow his lawn (Pleasant Valley Sunday; performing artist: The Monkees) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Village Squire (1935) Squire Phin (1922) The Murder of Squire Jeffrey (1913) It's Paul Squire PS (1983) Esq. Paul Squire (1983) | |
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![]() | Reading Letter of Commendation from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to several members of the USS Squalus (SS-192) salvage unit, in his Navy Department offices, 16 September 1939. The others present are (from left to right): Commander Charles B. Momsen, USN; Chief Metalsmith J.H. McDonald, USN; Chief Torpedoman W.H. Squire, USN; Ship Fitter First Class H.H. Frye, USN; Torpedoman First Class J.W. Thompson, USN; Lieutenant Karl R. Wheland, USN; Commander Henry Hartly, USN, and Commander Allan R. McCann, USN. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | The war of Ormuzd and Ahriman in the 19th century / The modern Quixote and Squire Sancho. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Illustrations of the adventures of the renowned Don Quixote & his doughty squire Sancho Panza. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Bashiby Larkin & Squire Cash. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Pickups" by Matt Williams Commentary: "The pickups on a Squire bass guitar." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Orson Squire Fowler | The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Economic History | Ukraine | In May of 2001, GOU announced a consortium of three foreign companies: Squire, Sanders +ACY- Dempsey, Millen Financial Services, and BNP Paribas as the selected advisers in the privatization of Ukrtelecom. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Squire" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 67.11% of the time. "Squire" is used about 304 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 67.11% | 204 | 21,327 |
| Noun (proper) | 32.89% | 100 | 32,668 |
| Total | 100.00% | 304 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "squire" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Squire | Last name | 1,000 | 7,718 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Squire, WV |
Expression using "squire": white squire. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "squire": Squire-bishop, squire-dominated. | |
Ending with "squire": All-right-squire, Apple-squire, body-squire, Hutton-squire. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "squire"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shqytar (armor-bearer, armour bearer, esquire), pronar toke (freeholder, landholder, landowner, property owner), kështjellar. (various references) | |
Arabic | مالك الأرض الرئيسي, قاضي الصلح, حامل الدروع, حرس (escort, guard, guarding, lifeguard, patrol, safeguard, shepherd, ward, watch, watchdog), المرافق (attendant, follower, squirearchy), الإ قطاعي (feudal), رافق سيدة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кавалер на дама (escort), галантен кавалер (gallant, spark), оръженосец (armor-bearer, armour bearer, esquire, henchman), мирови съдия (justice of the peace, magistrate, recorder), земевладелец (laird, landlord, landowner), придружавам (accompany, attend, convoy, escort, gallant, go with, punctuate, see, string along with, wait on). (various references) | |
Chinese | 鄉紳 , 大地主 (Squires). (various references) | |
Czech | statkář (land-holder, landlord, landowner), zeman (laird, thane), venkovský šlechtic. (various references) | |
Danish | Squire's reagens (Squire reagent). (various references) | |
Dutch | chaperonneren (chaperon). (various references) | |
Esperanto | akompani varte (chaperon). (various references) | |
Farsi | ملاک عمده , همراهی کردن (Accompany, Companion), سلحشور (Knight, Rink, Warrior), عنوانی مثل اقا, ارباب (Boss, Esquire, Lord, Master, Overlord, Padrone). (various references) | |
French | chaperonner. (various references) | |
German | schildknappe (shield bearer), knappe (clipped speech, scarcely, varlet), kavalier (beau, cavalier, Galahad, gallant, gentleman), gutsherr (farmer, laird, lord of the manor), begleiten (accompany, attend, back, come with, convoy, escort, go with, see, to accompany, to squire). (various references) | |
Greek | συνοδόσ (chaperon, companion, escort, stewardess, usher), ιπποκόμος (groom), ειρηνοδίκησ (justice of the peace, magistrate), άρχων (archon, liege, Lord, sire, suzerain), άρχοντασ (grandee, liege, Lord, magistrate, magnate, master, sire, suzerain), ακόλουθοσ ιππότου, τσιφλικάσ (big landowner), τσιφλικάς. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשמש בן לויה, לשאת כלים, בן לויה (companion, escort, follower), בעל אחוזה (laird, landed gentleman, landlord, landowner), נושא כלים (adjutant, armour bearer, batman, commentary, disciple, henchman, right hand man). (various references) | |
Hungarian | földesúr (laird, lord, seigneur), udvarló (admirer, beau, beaux, fella, feller, lover, philanderer, spark, suitor, Swain, wooer), pajzshordó (esquire), gavallér (beau, beaus, gallant, handsome, spark), fegyvernök (armor-bearer, armour bearer, esquire), békebíró (justice of peace, justice of the peace, magistrate on the commission). (various references) | |
Italian | possidente (laird, landowner, propertied). (various references) | |
Korean | 지주 (landholder, landowner, Squires). (various references) | |
Manx | squire (esquire), dooinney ooasle (dignitary, gentleman, nobleman), chiarn thallooin (ground landlord, landlord), armeyder (armourer). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iresquay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | magistrado (beak, justice, justice of the peace, magistrate), juiz de paz, indivíduo galanteador, fidalgo rural, escudeiro (armiger, armour-bearer, esquire, henchman, page), escoltar (accompany, coddle, convoy, escort, follow, guard), acompanhar (accompany, accompanying, carry, chaperon, coddle, companion, consort, escort, follow, go along, go along with, keep up with, mark, marshal, pilot, see, take, walk one up). (various references) | |
Romanian | paj (boy in buttons, buttons, henchman, page, varlet), moşier (laird, landed proprietor, landlord, renter), cavaler (admirer, bachelor, beau, cavalier, escort, gallant, generous, gentleman, horseman, knight, paladin), însoţitor (accompanying, attendant, companion, concomitant, conductor, consort, mate, porter). (various references) | |
Russian | сквайр, сопровождать сквайр, оруженосец (armor-bearer, armour bearer, armour-bearer, sword-bearer), мировой судья (justice of the peace, magistrate). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | plemić (junker, nobleman, patrician, peer, thane), štitonoša (esquire). (various references) | |
Spanish | escudero (page, shield bearer). (various references) | |
Swedish | väpnare (esquire), patron (cartridge, cartridge to a gun, master, shell), godsägare (country gentleman, estate owner, gentleman-farmer, laird, landowner, land-owner). (various references) | |
Turkish | toprak sahibi (laird, landed proprietor, landholder, landowner, the landed interest), refakât etmek (accompany, attend on smb., companion, consort, convoy, escort, wait on, wait upon), kavalyelik yapmak, kavalye (cavalier, companion, partner), köy ağası, bey (Ace, Bey, Don, esquire, gentleman, governor, Lord, Mister, Monsieur, mr, mr., Sahib, seigneur, the governor), avukatlık ünvanı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сквайр, залицятися (court, gallant, gallivant, philander, sweetheart, wait upon, woo). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | điền chủ người đi hộ vệ, địa chủ (landholder, zemindar). (various references) | |
Welsh | ysgwi%er. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | armiger, armigeri, armigerum, scutum. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | scutarius. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | esquier. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | esquier. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "squire": squirearchies, squirearchy, squired, squireen, squireens, squires. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "squire": esquire. (additional references) | |
Words containing "squire": esquired, esquires. (additional references) | |
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"Squire" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aquire, Aquirre, equire, esquirer, Saquier, Saulire, sauoure, scire, sequor, shquare, Skyrme, sourie, sqiure, squear, squege, squere, squice, squie, squiert, squiet, squir, squiral, squirel, squiren, squirk, squirl, squirle, squite, squre. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "squire" (pronounced skwī"r) |
| 4 | -k w ī" r | inquire, quire, reacquire, require. |
| 3 | -w ī" r | wire. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: quires, risque. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-q-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: quire, sieur. | |
-2 letters: ires, reis, rise, rues, ruse, sire, suer, sure, user. | |
-3 letters: ers, ire, rei, res, rue, sei, ser, sir, sri, sue, suq, use. | |
-4 letters: er, es, is, re, si, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-q-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: cirques, esquire, queries, querist, quivers, requins, squired, squires. | |
+2 letters: acquires, aquifers, briquets, enquires, esquired, esquires, inquires, liqueurs, marquise, periques, piroques, quarries, queasier, queerish, queridas, queriers, querists, quieters, quilters, quippers, quipster, quitters, quizzers, reequips, reliques, requiems, requires, requites, sequitur, squinter, squireen, squirmed, squirmer, squirrel, squirted, squirter. | |
+3 letters: acquirers, aequorins, antiquers, beliquors, critiques, enquiries, equaliser, equerries, equippers, esquiring, inquirers, inquiries, marquises, pratiques, quagmires, quarriers, quartiles, quibblers, quinaries, quipsters, quirkiest, quitrents, quiverers, ramequins, requirers, requisite, requitals, requiters, sequiturs, sobriquet, squabbier, squalider, squallier, squashier, squattier, squeakier, squiffier, squinnier, squinters, squintier, squireens, squirmers, squirmier, squirrels, squirters, squishier, squushier, turquoise. | |
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