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Definitions: Esquire |
EsquireNoun1. (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. Verb1. 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: EsquireSynonym: escort (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Esquire |
| English words defined with "esquire": Coistril ♦ Esquired, Esquiring ♦ Unsquire. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "esquire": men's magazine ♦ Pegg. (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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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) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Guilielmus Salmon Medicinae Professor. / W. S. Esquire ad vivum Sculpt.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 65.71% | 69 | 40,280 |
| Noun (proper) | 28.57% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 105 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Esquire Communications Ltd |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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 "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 esquimó (Eskimo, esophagus, husky). (various references) nobil (aerial, distinguished, gentle, grand, high minded, high-bred, kingly, lofty, noble, nobleman, noble-minded, nobly, patrician, peer, seignior). (various references) эсквайр (esq.). (various references) gospodin (baboo, duniwassal, gent, gentleman, mister, mr., nibs, seigneur, sir, sircar), štitonoša (squire). (various references) 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) väpnare (squire), herr (baboo, esq, gentleman, gentlemen, lord, Mister, Mr., Mr.(mister), sahib, sir). (various references) เ"็กรับใช้ประจำอัศวิน (ซึ่งกำลังฝึกฝนที่จะเป็นอัศวินเองในอนาคต). (various references) 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) есквайр, пан (overlord, sire). (various references) yswain. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ku. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | scutarius. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | esquier. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "esquire": esquired, esquires. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "esquire" (pronounced e"skwī'r) |
| 3 | -w ī' r | haywire. |
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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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 73 71 75 69 72 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). ... --.- ..- .. .-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110011 01110001 01110101 01101001 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E s q u i r e |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39858387758471 |
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