squire
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English esquire, from Old French escuier, from Latin scūtārius (“shield-bearer”), from scūtum (“shield”).
Inflected forms:
form: squires
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: squires
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: squiring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: squired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: squired
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
pos: noun
examples: A Squire he had, whose name was Ralph[.]
gloss: A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
pos: noun
tags: error-lua-exec
gloss: A male attendant on a great personage.
pos: noun
gloss: A landowner from the English gentry during the early modern period.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Third Suitor was Young Country Squire, well born,
 Perſon indifferent, Cloaths (fondly worn)[.]
gloss: A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
pos: noun
gloss: A title of office and courtesy. See under esquire.
pos: noun
gloss: A term of address to a male equal.
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
examples: Sorry squire, I've had a look 'round the back of the shop, and uh, we're right out of parrots.
gloss: An Australian snapper (Chrysophrys auratus), a food fish also found in eastern Asia.
pos: noun
gloss: A grass emperor (Lethrinus laticaudis), of coral reefs of the western Pacific.
pos: noun
gloss: To attend as a squire.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [O]n ſome occaſions, he diſplayed all his fund of good humour, vvith a vievv to beguile her ſorrovv; he importuned her to give him the pleasure of ’ſquiring her to ſome place of innocent entertainment; and, finally, inſiſted upon her accepting a pecuniary reinforcement to her finances, vvhich he knevv to be in a moſt conſumptive condition.
Perceiving, however, that I had on my best wig, she offered, if I would ’squire her there, to send home the footman.
To man a lady was, in former times, a phrase similar to the vulgar one at present in use, to squire.
Yes, such a thing as thou wouldst make of me should wear a book at his girdle instead of a poniard, and might just be suspected of manhood enough to squire a proud dame-citizen to the lecture at Saint Antonlin’s, and quarrel in her cause with any flat-capped threadmaker that would take the wall of her.
And raising good cotton, riding well, shooting straight, dancing lightly, squiring the ladies with elegance and carrying one’s liquor like a gentleman were the things that mattered.
A butch entered squiring a blonde whore tottering along on spike heels under dairy whip hair, her chubby hand rising again and again to tuck a stray wisp back into the creamy dome.
Derived words: apple-squire
squarson
squarsonage
squiralty
squirearchy
squiredom
squirefish
squirehood
squireless
squirelet
squirelike
squireling
squirely
squire of dames
squireship
squiress
squirish
unsquire
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: кавалер
roman: kavaler
lang: Danish
word: kavaler
lang: Finnish
word: seuralainen
lang: Finnish
word: kavaljeeri
lang: French
word: cavalier
lang: French
word: escorte
lang: French
word: sigisbée
lang: Hungarian
word: lovag
lang: Hungarian
word: gavallér
lang: Hungarian
word: udvarló
lang: Italian
word: cicisbeo
lang: Polish
word: kawaler
lang: Russian
word: кавале́р
roman: kavalér