esquires
Meaning of esquires
- 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.
J. C. Pearson Esquire
- a young nobleman who, in training for knighthood, acted as an attendant to a knight.
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.
Information about esquires
- It is a name.
- The singular form of esquires is: esquire.
- Languages in which esquires is used:
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Hyphenation of esquires
es-quires
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- esquires is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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