squire

About 2.41 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
2. noun A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
3. noun A male attendant on a great personage.
4. noun A landowner from the English gentry during the early modern period.
5. noun A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
6. noun A title of office and courtesy. See under esquire.
7. noun A term of address to a male equal.
8. noun An Australian snapper (Chrysophrys auratus), a food fish also found in eastern Asia.

Similar words

gallant sire seigneur chief equerry lord esquire senor parson head

Often followed by

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Word family

squired squires squiring squirish