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\ ˈskwī(-ə)r 
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\Definition of squire
(Entry 1 of 2)
1 : a shield bearer or armor bearer of a knight
2a : a male attendant especially on a great personage
b : a man who devotedly attends a lady : gallant
3a : a member of the British gentry ranking below a knight and above a gentleman
b : an owner of a country estate especially : the principal landowner in a village or district
squire
verbsquired; squiring
Definition of squire (Entry 2 of 2)
: to attend as a squire : escort
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Other Words from squire
Noun
squirish \ ˈskwīr-ish \ adjective
\ adjective
Examples of squire in a Sentence
Verb
her father squired her to the dance to make sure she got there all right
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Tiuri bops from helper to faux and back again on this horseback ride to King Favian, all the while evading various groups of bunglers, including his own cohort of indistinguishable teen squires, who are each trying to capture or kill him.
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Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, "'The Letter for the King': TV Review," 20 Mar. 2020 After becoming the great knight’s squire, Alleyne goes off to war to earn his master’s respect and the hand of his romantic, headstrong daughter, Maude.
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Michael Dirda, Washington Post, "Arthur Conan Doyle wrote more than detective novels. Let’s not forget his more swashbuckling stories.," 15 Jan. 2020 The adventures of this knight (Robert J. Townsend) and his squire, Sancho Panza (Jeffrey Landman), quickly crystallize around Quixote’s spellbound love for a wench of ill repute, Aldonza (Heidi Meyer).
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David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Review: SDMT’s stirring ‘Man of La Mancha’ delivers as it dares to dream the impossible," 29 Sep. 2019 Rich aristocrats could breed horses and hunting dogs, but for the squires and their circle, dog breeding was a better fit in every respect.
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Brian T. Allen, National Review, "Dog Days of Summer? Visit the New Museum of the Dog," 24 Aug. 2019 The squire, the son of a land owner, turns out to be the bad guy in the book, taking more and more.
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Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, "Soucheray: There they go, boardsplaining this 10% Ramsey County tax-levy increase," 17 Aug. 2019 The 'Good Will Hunting' duo and Nicole Holofcener will adapt Eric Jager's book about a knight battling a squire accused of violating the knight’s beautiful young wife in 14th century France.
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Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, "Ridley Scott to Direct Matt Damon, Ben Affleck in 'The Last Duel'," 22 July 2019 The town is content to play the role of country squire to its splashier waterfront neighbors, Westport, Greenwich, and Darien.
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Sarah Schweitzer, The Atlantic, "The Lunch Ladies of New Canaan," 15 Aug. 2019 Jager’s story, which is called The Last Duel: A True Story of Trial by Combat in Medieval France, is a revenge story depicting two best friends, the knight Jean de Carrouges (Affleck) and the squire Jacques Le Gris (Damon).
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Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, "Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Are Reuniting for Ridley Scott's 14th Century Drama The Last Duel," 22 July 2019 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb Of course, while many of us grow up dreaming about cruising winding roads in a roadster, reality ends up looking like squiring our kids and groceries around sprawling suburban streets in something with at least two rows of seats.
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Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, "Review: Porsche Macan S will leave you wanting more," 16 Feb. 2020 Nearly two years ago, pedicab driver Kevin Manning was struck and killed by a car while squiring a family of tourists on the Embarcadero near Sansome Street.
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Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, "Next bike barrier frontier: San Francisco’s bustling Embarcadero," 10 Feb. 2020 Historians are frequently invited to give talks at other universities, and graduate students shoulder the burden of organizing them—e-mails, pickups at the train station, squiring visitors around to various Gothic towers for genteel exchanges.
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Rachel Nolan, The New Yorker, "A Yale Student’s Urgent Fight to Save His Mother from Deportation," 1 Nov. 2019 The Cannes amfAR gala is a famously glittering affair, with top designers squiring actresses and supermodels in haute couture against the sensational backdrop of the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc and the Mediterranean behind it.
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Nicole Phelps, Vogue, "Giambattista Valli is H&M’s New Designer Collaborator—And His Limited Edition Dresses Are Dropping This Saturday," 23 May 2019 Back near the kitchen Italian playboy Gianni Agnelli squired a woman so breathtaking even the gay maître d' went weak at the knees.
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Jay Cheshes, Town & Country, "Caviar and Cocaine," 6 Feb. 2013 James Beard, the cookbook author, squired her into the kitchen at the Four Seasons in New York.
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James R. Hagerty, WSJ, "Ella Brennan Nurtured Celebrity Chefs but Didn’t Take Them Too Seriously," 8 June 2018 Then squire your companion across the street to the Boston Harbor Hotel’s Movies by Moonlight series, which starts at dusk every Friday evening.
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Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, "8 great summer dates," 6 June 2018 Sedona, gateway to Arizona’s red rock country 90 minutes drive north of Phoenix, attracts hikers eager to scale its striated buttes and New Age pilgrims seeking the fabled vortexes — or energy centers — said to be squired in the rocks.
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Elaine Glusac, New York Times, "Sedona for Serenity, Spas and Now Syrahs," 18 Apr. 2018
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squire
nounEnglish Language Learners Definition of squire
: a young man in the Middle Ages who helped a knight before eventually becoming a knight himself
: a man in the past in England who owned most of the land in a village or district in the country
British, informal + old-fashioned —used to address a man whose name is unknown
See the full definition for squire in the English Language Learners Dictionary
squire
noun\ ˈskwīr \
\Kids Definition of squire
1 : a person who carries the shield or armor of a knight
3 : an owner of a country estate
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