squire /skwaɪə $ skwaɪr/ noun
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: escuier, from Late Latin scutarius, from Latin scutum 'shield']

1. [countable] the man who in the past owned most of the land around a country village in England

2. [countable] a young man in the Middle Ages who learned how to be a knight by serving one

3. British English old-fashioned spoken used by some men to address a man when they do not know his name

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