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Word: Esquire
Speech Type: Noun
late Middle English: from Old French esquier, from Latin scutarius ‘shield-bearer’, from scutum ‘shield’; compare with squire. esquire (sense 2 of the noun) was the original denotation, esquire (sense 1 of the noun) being at first a courtesy title given to such a person
ɪˈskwʌɪə
a polite title appended to a man's name when no other title is used, typically in the address of a letter or other documents
Short Definition:polite title
Examples:- J. C. Pearson Esquire
a young nobleman who, in training for knighthood, acted as an attendant to a knight.
Short Definition:knight's attendant
- esq.
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