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 Definitions for Squire: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
: Squire \Squire\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. squired (skw[imac]rd); p.
pr. & vb. n. squiring.]
1. To attend as a squire. --Chaucer.
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2. To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection;
as, to squire a lady. [Colloq.] --Goldsmith.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
: Squire \Squire\ (skw[imac]r), n. [OF. esquierre, F. ['e]querre.
See Square, n.]
A square; a measure; a rule. [Obs.] "With golden squire."
--Spenser.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
: Squire \Squire\, n. [Aphetic form of esquire.]
1. A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
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2. A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above
gentleman. See Esquire. [Eng.] "His privy knights and
squires." --Chaucer.
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3. A male attendant on a great personage; also (Colloq.), a
devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
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4. A title of office and courtesy. See under Esquire.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
: squire
n 1: young nobleman attendant on a knight
2: an English country landowner
3: a man who attends or escorts a woman [syn: gallant]
v : attend upon as a squire; serve as a squire
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
: 155 Moby Thesaurus words for "squire":
Brahman, Casanova, Don Juan, Ganymede, Hebe, Lothario, Romeo,
accompany, address, airline hostess, airline stewardess, amoroso,
archduke, aristocrat, armiger, attend, attendant, baron, baronet,
batman, beau, bellboy, bellhop, bellman, beneficiary, blue blood,
bodyguard, bootblack, boots, boyfriend, caballero, cabin boy,
caddie, cavalier, cavaliere servente, cestui, cestui que trust,
cestui que use, chaperon, chase, chore boy, companion, conduct,
conductor, convoy, copyboy, count, court, cupbearer, daimio,
deedholder, duenna, duke, earl, errand boy, errand girl, escort,
esquire, fellow, fellow traveler, feoffee, feudatory, flame,
follow, footboy, gallant, gentleman, gigolo, go with, gofer,
grand duke, grandee, guard, guide, hidalgo, hostess, householder,
inamorato, lace-curtain, lady-killer, laird, landgrave, landholder,
landlady, landlord, landowner, lay siege to, lead, lord, lordling,
love-maker, magnate, magnifico, make suit to, man, margrave,
marquis, marshal, master, mesne, mesne lord, mistress, necker,
noble, nobleman, office boy, office girl, old man, optimate,
orderly, owner, page, palsgrave, patrician, pay attention to,
pay court to, peer, petter, philanderer, proprietary, proprietor,
proprietress, proprietrix, pursue, rentier, safe-conduct, seducer,
seigneur, seignior, serenade, sheik, shepherd, silk-stocking,
spark, steward, stewardess, sue, sugar daddy, swain, sweetheart,
swell, take, take out, tender, thoroughbred, titleholder,
trainbearer, upper-cruster, usher, viscount, wait on, waldgrave,
woo, yeoman, young man
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
: Squire, WV
Zip code(s): 24884
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