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Esquire

Definitions: Esquire

Esquire

Noun

1. (in medieval England) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthood.

2. (British) a title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight; placed after the name.

Verb

1. Accompany as an escort.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "esquire" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

 

Synonym: Esquire

Synonym: escort (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Esquire

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Lawyer

Adjective: learned in the law; at the bar; forensic; esquire, esquired.

Nobility

King; (master); atheling; prince, duke; marquis, marquisate; earl, viscount, baron, thane, banneret; baronet, baronetcy; knight, knighthood; count, armiger, laird; signior, seignior; esquire, boyar, margrave, vavasour; emir, ameer, scherif, sharif, effendi, wali; sahib; chevalier, maharaja, nawab, palsgrave, pasha, rajah, waldgrave.

Sexuality

Pornography, porn, porno; hardcore pornography, softcore pornography; pin-up, cheesecake; beefcake; Playboy, Esquire, Hustler.

Title

Highness, excellency, grace; lordship, worship; reverence, reverend; esquire, sir, master, Mr., signor, se$or, Mein Herr, mynheer; your honor, his honor; serene highness; handle to one's name.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Esquire

English words defined with "esquire": CoistrilEsquired, EsquiringUnsquire. (references)
Specialty definitions using "esquire": men's magazinePegg. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Esquire" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (esquire).

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Modern Usage: Esquire

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Mitchell Stephens, Esquire. Tell me, would you be likely to sue me if I was to beat you right now? I mean, beat you so bad you piss blood and couldn't walk for a month. (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan)

And Dad, he just locked himself in the bathroom with old copies of Esquire. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Robert Roberts, Esquire to you, honky! (My Science Project; writing credit: Jonathan R. Betuel)

Movie/TV Titles

Angel Esquire (1919)

Esquire New York Travel Guide (1992)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Esquire

DomainTitle

References

  • Esquire Communications Ltd: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  

Periodicals

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Esquire

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Guilielmus Salmon Medicinae Professor. / W. S. Esquire ad vivum Sculpt.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Esquire

"Esquire" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 65.71% of the time. "Esquire" is used about 105 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)65.71%6940,280
Noun (proper)28.57%3063,341
Lexical Verb (base form)5.71%6143,867
                    Total100.00%105N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Esquire

CountryName
USA

Esquire Communications Ltd

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Esquire

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

esquire

474

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7

esquire magazine

227

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7

esquire watch

100

1954 esquire

7

esquire theater

34

25 bag camera esquire leather vidpro

6

esquire imax

28

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6

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27

esquire grill sacramento

5

fender esquire

18

court esquire reporting

5

cover esquire magazine

17

coffee esquire

5

cincinnati esquire theater

15

esquire movie theater

4

esquire imax theater

13

esquire deposition service

4

esquire watch company

13

esquire staffing

4

esquire deposition

12

esquire meaning

4

esquire grill

11

company esq esquire watch

4

esquire insurance

11

denver esquire theater

4

esquire tile

10

esquire theater chicago

4

definition esquire

9

ceramic esquire tile

4

cincinnati esquire

8

esq esquire watch

4

esquire home

8

does esquire mean

4

esquire limousine

8

esquire court reporter

3

esquire swiss watch

8

esquire imax sacramento

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Esquire

Language Translations for "esquire"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shqytar (armor-bearer, armour bearer, squire). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏محترم سيد, ‏المبجل, ‏إنكليزى أقل من الفارس. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

оръженосец (armor-bearer, armour bearer, henchman, squire), благородник (aristocrat, gentle, grand seigneur, high minded, noble, nobleman, peer). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

"性尊稱 . (various references)

   

Czech

  

vážený pan. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مالک زمین , عنوان روی نامه وامثال ان , اقا (Don, Gent, Gentleman, Sir), ارباب (Boss, Lord, Master, Overlord, Padrone, Squire). (various references)

   

French

  

esquire, écuyer. (various references)

   

German

  

Wohlgeboren. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κύριοσ (capital, chief, dominant, gentleman, leading, liege, main, master, monsignor, mr, principal, proper, seignior), αξιότιμοσ κύριοσ. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מר (acerb, bitter, embittered, mr.). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nemes (fine, grand, large, noble, patrician, titled), úr (baboo, esq., gentleman, gentlemen, lord, lord god of hosts, master, master card, mr., sahib, sirrah, to master), nemesember (noble, nobleman, noblemen). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tuan yang terhormat. (various references)

   

Italian

  

signore (gentleman, gentleman s, ladies, liege, Lord, madams, man, Mister, Mr, Mr., signor, Sir), scudiero (equerry). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

エスキモー犬 (aesthetic, escape, escort, escort girl, Eskimo dog, ESPer, Esperanto, esprit, esprit nouveau, establishment, estate, ester, esterase, esthetic, esthetic salon, estheticien, Estonia, estrogen, estrone, es-zet, eternal, eternity, ethnic, ethnic fashion, ethnic food, ethnic group, ethnic look, ethnicism, ethnicity, ethno, ethnology, ethology, expresso, hope, one who has ESP, S size, sauce Espagnole, science of animal behaviour, Short Take-Off and Landing, small size, STOL). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

エスクワイア . (various references)

   

Manx

  

squire (squire). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

esquireay

   

Portuguese

  

esquimó (Eskimo, esophagus, husky). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

nobil (aerial, distinguished, gentle, grand, high minded, high-bred, kingly, lofty, noble, nobleman, noble-minded, nobly, patrician, peer, seignior). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

эсквайр (esq.). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

gospodin (baboo, duniwassal, gent, gentleman, mister, mr., nibs, seigneur, sir, sircar), štitonoša (squire). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

vuestra merced, vd (you), señor (conqueror, despot, Don, esq., gent, gentleman, Lord, lordship, man, master, mister, mr., overlord, seigneur, Sir, vassal), don (boon, Don, Esq, gift, offering, quality). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

väpnare (squire), herr (baboo, esq, gentleman, gentlemen, lord, Mister, Mr., Mr.(mister), sahib, sir). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เ"็กรับใช้ประจำอัศวิน (ซึ่งกำลังฝึกฝนที่จะเป็นอัศวินเองในอนาคต). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

beyefendi (gentleman, Lord, Mister, mr, mr., Sir), bey (Ace, Bey, Don, gentleman, governor, lord, Mister, Monsieur, mr, mr., Sahib, seigneur, squire, the governor). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

есквайр, пан (overlord, sire). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

yswain. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Esquire

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

ku. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

scutarius. (various references)

Middle French1400-1600

esquier. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Esquire

Derivations

Words beginning with "esquire": esquired, esquires. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Esquire" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bequerel, Eckmire, equiee, equir, equire, Equitrac, eskuara, esqiure, Esquadra, esquare, esquarre, esquirer, esuire, Euskara, Ezequiel, Pesquero, sequor, ufsquare. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Esquire"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "esquire" (pronounced e"skwī'r)
3-w ī' rhaywire.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Esquire

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: queries.

Words within the letters "e-e-i-q-r-s-u"

-1 letter: queers, quires, risque, squire.

-2 letters: queer, quire, reuse, sieur, siree.

-3 letters: ires, rees, reis, rise, rues, ruse, seer, sere, sire, suer, sure, user.

-4 letters: ere, ers, ire, ree, rei, res, rue, see, sei, ser, sir, sri, sue, suq, use.

-5 letters: er, es, is, re, si, us.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-q-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: enquires, esquired, esquires, periques, queasier, queerish, queriers, quieters, reequips, reliques, requiems, requires, requites, squireen.

 

+2 letters: enquiries, equaliser, equerries, equippers, quiverers, requirers, requisite, requiters, squeakier, squireens.

 

+3 letters: briquettes, brusquerie, coquetries, equalisers, equalizers, equestrian, jacqueries, liquefiers, perquisite, picaresque, quackeries, quercetins, questioner, quickeners, reacquires, requesting, requiescat, requisites, semiquaver, squelchier, squirreled.

 

+4 letters: brusqueries, corequisite, equestrians, frequencies, marquetries, marquisette, parquetries, perquisites, picaresques, picturesque, prerequires, quarterlies, questioners, reliquaries, reliquefies, requalifies, requiescats, semiquavers, squirrelled.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Esquire


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 73 71 75 69 72 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    ...    --.-    ..-    ..    .-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01110011 01110001 01110101 01101001 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#115 &#113 &#117 &#105 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0073 0071 0075 0069 0072 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39858387758471

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Usage Frequency
8. Names: Company Usage
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Translations: Ancient
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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