Esquire

Quick meaning: Esquire is a noun meaning (usually US, law) A lawyer.

Meaning

(usually US, law) A lawyer.

More Meanings

1. A male member of the gentry ranking below a knight.
2. An honorific sometimes placed after a man's name.
3. A gentleman who attends or escorts a lady in public.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To attend, wait on, escort.
5. (heraldry, rare) The lower of the halves into which a square is divided diagonally, a single gyron, but potentially larger (extending across the shield) or smaller (for example, on Mortimer's arms).
6. (archaic) A squire; a youth who in the hopes of becoming a knight attended upon a knight
7. (obsolete) A shield-bearer, but also applied to other attendants.

Example Sentences

Thre pallets between ij Esquires bast dexter and sinister of the second.

I am Robert Shallow, sir; a poor esquire of the county, and one of the king's justices of the peace.

Mortimer, Barry of 6, or & az. an inescutcheon arg. on a chief of the first 2 pallets between as many base esquires of the second.

The office of the esquire consisted of several departments; the esquire for the body, the esquire of the chamber, the esquire of the stable, and the carving esquire; the latter stood in the hall at dinner, carved the different dishes, and distributed them to the guests.

Word Forms

• esquires
• esquiring
• esquired

Synonyms for esquire

Depending on context, synonyms include escort.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include escort, knight, squire, chevalier, mode, char.

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