Esquire
English
Noun
Esquire (plural Esquires)- a lawyer
- a male member of the gentry ranking below a knight
- an honorific sometimes placed after a man's name
- A gentleman who attends or escorts a lady in public.
Verb
Esquire (third-person singular simple present Esquires, present participle esquiring, simple past and past participle esquired)
- (transitive, obsolete) To attend, wait on, escort.
Noun
Esquire (plural Esquires)- (heraldry) A bearing somewhat resembling a gyron, but extending across the field so that the point touches the opposite edge of the escutcheon.
Thesaurus
baron, baronet, beau, blue blood, bodyguard, boyfriend, caballero, cavalier, cavaliere servente, chaperon, companion, conductor, convoy, count, daimio, duenna, duke, earl, escort, fellow, fellow traveler, flame, gallant, gentleman, gigolo, grand duke, grandee, guard, hidalgo, inamorato, lace-curtain, lady-killer, laird, landgrave, lord, lordling, love-maker, magnate, magnifico, man, margrave, marquis, necker, noble, nobleman, old man, optimate, palsgrave, patrician, peer, petter, philanderer, safe-conduct, seducer, seigneur, seignior, sheik, shepherd, silk-stocking, squire, sugar daddy, swain, swell, thoroughbred, upper-cruster, usher, viscount, waldgrave, young man
