squire
/ˈskwaɪə//ˈskwaɪɚ/
- n.
- 乡绅，大地主，治安官
- vt.
- 随侍，护卫
- vi.
- 当乡绅
中文释义来自 ECDICT
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词源链
- 英语English
squire
词源说明
From Middle English esquire, from Old French escuier, from Latin scūtārius (“shield-bearer”), from scūtum (“shield”).
释义
名词noun
- 1A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
- 2A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
- 3A male attendant on a great personage.
- 4historicalA landowner from the English gentry during the early modern period.
- 5A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau