How to pronounce “esquire”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (usually US, law) 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.
• (archaic) A squire; a youth who in the hopes of becoming a knight attended upon a knight
• (obsolete) A shield-bearer, but also applied to other attendants.
• [Verb]
• (transitive, obsolete) To attend, wait on, escort.

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