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"SQUIRES" is a plural of: squire. |
Date "SQUIRES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Spontaneous alternate contraction and dilation of the pupil, indicative of basilar meningitis. (references) |
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Crosswords: SQUIRES |
| English words defined with "SQUIRES": At odds ♦ Squiery, Squiry. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SQUIRES": Doctors. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Reigate Squires (1922) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Panorama, crowds at Squires - Burns international contest from centre of ring, Colma, July 4th, 1907. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | To the absolute governments, with their following of parsons, professors, country squires and officials, it served as a welcome scarecrow against the threatening bourgeoisie. (reference) |
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| "SQUIRES" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 56.52% of the time. "SQUIRES" is used about 161 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 (proper) | 56.52% | 91 | 34,491 |
| Noun (plural) | 43.48% | 70 | 39,981 |
| Total | 100.00% | 161 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "SQUIRES" 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 |
| Squires | Last name | 6,000 | 2,181 |
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1. Squires, MO |
Expression using "SQUIRES": Squires sign. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "SQUIRES": Collis-squires. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SQUIRES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 大地主 (squire). (various references) | ||||
Danish | Squire's tegn (Squires sign). (various references) | ||||
French | phénomène de Squires (Squires sign). (various references) | ||||
German | begleitet (accompanied, accompanies, attends, escorts). (various references) | ||||
Italian | segno di Squires (Squires sign). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 지주 (landholder, landowner, squire). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | iressquay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "SQUIRES": esquires. (additional references) | |
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"SQUIRES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aquires, asqueroso, Saquier, Sequeros, Sequiros, sqiure, squeers, squere, squice, squie, squiert, squiral, squiren, squirle, squirters, squre. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SQUIRES" (pronounced skwī"erz) |
| 5 | -k w ī" er z | acquires, inquires, requires. |
| 4 | -w ī" er z | wires. |
| 3 | -ī" er z | aspires, buyers, desires, dryers, expires, fires, fliers, flyers, friars, fryers, hires, liars, pliers, Priors, Spiers, suppliers, tires, transpires. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-q-r-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: issuer, quires, risque, sieurs, squire. | |
-2 letters: issue, quire, rises, risus, ruses, sieur, sires, suers, users. | |
-3 letters: ires, reis, rise, rues, ruse, seis, sers, sire, sirs, sris, suer, sues, suqs, sure, user, uses. | |
-4 letters: ers, ess, ire, rei, res, rue, sei, ser, sir, sis, sri, sue, suq, use. | |
-5 letters: er, es, is, re, si, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-q-r-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: esquires, querists. | |
+2 letters: marquises, quipsters, sequiturs, squashier, squinters, squireens, squirmers, squirrels, squirters, squishier, squushier. | |
+3 letters: equalisers, quirkiness, requisites, sobriquets, squirmiest, squooshier, turquoises. | |
+4 letters: brusqueries, equestrians, marquisates, perquisites, picaresques, questioners, quizmasters, requiescats, semiquavers, soubriquets, vanquishers. | |
+5 letters: aquarellists, corequisites, equilibrists, marquisettes, quadricepses, quicksilvers, quirkinesses, relinquishes, requisitions, sequestering, squarishness, squirarchies, tranquilness. | |
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