Esquire Definition

ĕskwīr, ĭ-skwīr
noun
In England, a member of the gentry ranking just below a knight.
Webster's New World
Used as an honorific usually in its abbreviated form, especially after the name of an attorney or a consular officer.
Jane Doe, Esq.; John Doe, Esq.
American Heritage
A candidate for knighthood, acting as attendant and shield-bearer for a knight; squire.
Webster's New World
A barrister-at-law.
American Heritage
A title of courtesy, usually abbreviated Esq., Esqr., placed after a man's surname and corresponding more ceremoniously to Mr.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb

(obsolete) To attend, wait on, escort.

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Other Word Forms of Esquire

Noun

Singular:
esquire
Plural:
esquires

Origin of Esquire

  • From Old French escuyer, escuier, properly, a shield-bearer (compare modern French écuyer (“shield-bearer, armor-bearer”)), by apheresis “squire of a knight, esquire, equerry, rider, horseman”, Late Latin scutarius (“shield-bearer”), from Latin scutum (“shield”); probably akin to English hide (“to cover”). Compare equerry, escutcheon.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English esquier from Old French escuier from Late Latin scūtārius shield bearer from Latin scūtum shield skei- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Old French esquiere, esquierre, esquarre (“a square”)

    From Wiktionary

Esquire Sentence Examples

  • Already on the 8th of February 1395/96 he was on a commission with several knights and clerks to hear an appeal in a case of John Molton, Esquire v.

  • We have the Conveyance written on parchment from Thomas Daniel Esquire to Mr William Garratt !

  • The Esquire Bedell bears the mace in the Queenâs academic procession.

  • Khan is still applied to semi-independent rulers, such as the khans of Russian Turkestan, or the khan of Kalat in Baluchistan, and is also used immediately after the name of rulers such as the sultan of Turkey; the meaning of the term has also extended downwards, until in Persia and Afghanistan it has become an affix to the name of any Mahommedan gentleman, like Esquire, and in India it has become a part of many Mahommedan names, especially when Pathan descent is claimed.

  • East of my bean-field, across the road, lived Cato Ingraham, slave of Duncan Ingraham, Esquire, gentleman, of Concord village, who built his slave a house, and gave him permission to live in Walden Woods;--Cato, not Uticensis, but Concordiensis.

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