Definitions for Esquire

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Esquire es·quire

Spelling: [es-kwahyuh r, e-skwahy

IPA: /ˈɛs kwaɪər, ɛˈskwaɪər/

Esquire is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in Esquire (eeiqrsu).

Definitions for Esquire

noun

1. (initial capital letter) an unofficial title of respect, having no precise significance, sometimes placed, especially in its abbreviated form, after a man's surname in formal written address: in the U.S., usually applied to lawyers, women as well as men; in Britain, applied to a commoner considered to have gained the social position of a gentleman. Abbreviation: Esq.
2. squire (def 2).
3. a man belonging to the order of English gentry ranking next below a knight.
4. Archaic. squire (def 1).

verb (used with object)

1. to raise to the rank of esquire.
2. to address as “Esquire.”.
3. to escort or attend in public.

Origin of Esquire

1425-75; late Middle English esquier Middle French escuier Latin scūtārius shield bearer, equivalent to scūt(um) (see scutage) + -ārius -ary

Examples for Esquire

“It really sucks to be in your younger twenties,” Colfer told esquire.

We have just returned this morning from visiting Mrs. esquire Lee.

Then would follow two or three local worthies with esquire after their names.

He wrote about their time together for the April 1982 issue of esquire (and the piece appears here with the author's permission).

“[I]ndeed, the Civil War was more or less administered from there,” an esquire review asserts.

Over the years, Crawford has been largely silent, speaking out only for an as-told-to obituary to Houston published in esquire.

If the esquire were to be snipped once and for ever from the tail of my name I should be the lighter for it.

This gives Nagrani greater satisfaction than to have esquire last year crown his socks “the best in the world”.

They had now reached a stone wall which fronted the estate of esquire Duncan.

esquire does not mean squire, and esq. does not mean anything.