SQUIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does squire mean? 

• SQUIRE (noun)
  The noun SQUIRE has 3 senses:

1. young nobleman attendant on a knight

2. an English country landowner

3. a man who attends or escorts a woman

  Familiarity information: SQUIRE used as a noun is uncommon.

• SQUIRE (verb)
  The verb SQUIRE has 1 sense:

1. attend upon as a squire; serve as a squire

  Familiarity information: SQUIRE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SQUIRE (noun)

Sense 1

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 2

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 3

Meaning:

A man who attends or escorts a woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

gallant; squire

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

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

• SQUIRE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they squire    ... he / she / it squires   
Past simple: squired   
Past participle: squired   
-ing form: squiring   

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)

 Context examples 

My ancestors were country squires, who appear to have led much the same life as is natural to their class.

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

A strange thrill it gave to the young squire to see the well-remembered white dress once more, and to hear the measured tolling of the deep vespers bell.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the village I just came from, the squire has had a pig stolen out of his sty.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“Nothing could be better,” cried the squire, heartily.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our first attention was given to the body of the unfortunate squire, whose huge frame lay stretched across the room.

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

Ferndean then remained uninhabited and unfurnished, with the exception of some two or three rooms fitted up for the accommodation of the squire when he went there in the season to shoot.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Her father had no ward, and the squire of the parish no children.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

And all the time this quiet country house of yours is the centre of half the mischief in England, and the sporting squire the most astute secret-service man in Europe.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One of them added that it was hard lines that there wasn't any gentleman such-like as yourself, squire, to show some sort of appreciation of their efforts in a liquid form; another put in a rider that the thirst then generated was such that even the time which had elapsed had not completely allayed it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

All this may be stamped on it; and that house receive such an air as to make its owner be set down as the great landholder of the parish by every creature travelling the road; especially as there is no real squire's house to dispute the point—a circumstance, between ourselves, to enhance the value of such a situation in point of privilege and independence beyond all calculation.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)