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ESQUIRE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight; placed after the name

Synonyms:

Esq; Esquire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Esquire" is a kind of...):

adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("esquire" is a kind of...):

attendant; attender; tender (someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another)

Domain category:

Dark Ages; Middle Ages (the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance)

Domain region:

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb esquire

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