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SQUIRE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An English country landowner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

landholder; landowner; property owner (a holder or proprietor of land)

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:

Young nobleman attendant on a knight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "squire"):

armiger; armor-bearer (a squire carrying the armor of a knight)

Derivation:

squire (attend upon as a squire; serve as a squire)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A man who attends or escorts a woman

Synonyms:

gallant; squire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Attend upon as a squire; serve as a squire

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "squire" is one way to...):

escort (accompany as an escort)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

squire (young nobleman attendant on a knight)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The last squire dragged out his existence there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he established a large practice.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Uppercross was a moderate-sized village, which a few years back had been completely in the old English style, containing only two houses superior in appearance to those of the yeomen and labourers; the mansion of the squire, with its high walls, great gates, and old trees, substantial and unmodernized, and the compact, tight parsonage, enclosed in its own neat garden, with a vine and a pear-tree trained round its casements; but upon the marriage of the young 'squire, it had received the improvement of a farm-house elevated into a cottage, for his residence, and Uppercross Cottage, with its veranda, French windows, and other prettiness, was quite as likely to catch the traveller's eye as the more consistent and considerable aspect and premises of the Great House, about a quarter of a mile farther on.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“I cannot tell,” quoth Alleyne shortly; and the two squires rode on again, each intent upon his own thoughts.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You do me justice, James,” said Lord Avon, clasping the broad, brown hand which the country squire had held out to him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was dreadfully afraid when I saw you that you had got the squire’s pig. If you have, and they catch you, it will be a bad job for you.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

From a grove upon our left I could already see the high chimneys and the flag-staff which marked the squire’s dwelling.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We had not long to wait, for our Norfolk squire came straight from the station as fast as a hansom could bring him.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“And all in four years, Baron. Not such a bad show for the hard-drinking, hard-riding country squire. But the gem of my collection is coming and there is the setting all ready for it.”

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And so also with the squire Le Bourg Capillet, who would have been a very valiant captain had he lived.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The squire’s weather-stained face flushed to a deeper red as he turned upon the Londoner.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)