squire
/skwʌɪə/
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American sound/skwʌɪə/
squire
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Myanmar meaning
တောသူဌေး မြေပိုင်ရှင်။ သူရဲကောင်း၏ လက်ပါးစေတပည့်။ အမျိုးသမီးကို လိုက်ပါစောင့်ရှောက်သည်။
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၁။ (in titles Squire ) (ရှေး) (အင်္ဂလန်တွင်) လူကုံထံ။ ကျေးလက်ဒေသ မြေပိုင်ရှင်။ တောသူဌေး။
၂။ (Brit infml or joc ) (ယောကျ်ားအချင်းချင်းအကြား ဖော်ရွေသောအားဖြင့် သုံးသော အာလုပ်စကား)။ သူဌေးမင်း။ လူကြီးမင်း။ What can I get you, squire?
၃။ (ရှေး) သူရဲကောင်းအရာသို့ မရောက်မီ သူရဲကောင်းတစ်ဦးထံတွင် လက်ထောက်ဖြစ်ခဲ့သူ လူရွယ်။
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- ‘Scott, by contrast, is very much the country squire, down in town from his home in the Borders.’
- ‘The trustworthy parson and the trustworthy squire are the twin pillars of rural life.’
- ‘Striding out with his faithful hound at his heels, he would be the picture of the country squire were it not for his somewhat bizarre attire - cut-off shorts, a sleeveless T - shirt and a sailor's cap.’
- ‘Deference to the squire and the parson was often a façade, masking constant challenges to authority by poaching and more explicit threats of rick-burning.’
- ‘Especially over-optimistic were those landowners who, envying the political rights and responsibilities of the English squire, sought to popularize in Russia the ideas of British liberalism.’
- ‘There was also a small English rising in Northumberland, supported mostly by catholic and high Anglican squires who were bankrupt.’
- ‘The squire, Sir John Boileau, and the vicar, the Reverend Mr Andrew, were both highly literate men who didn't get on - and both kept diaries, largely about each other.’
- ‘Ordinary gentlewomen, daughters not of lords, but of local knights and squires, showed moreover the same sort of awareness of the dignity of their blood and arms as did great ladies like Dervorguilla of Galloway.’
- ‘Her father Sir Reginald Sheffield 8th Baronet, squire of Normanby Park, Lincolnshire, was appointed a deputy lieutenant for what was then Humberside in 1985.’
- ‘The old 16 th-century Welsh squire - and crook - Sir John Wynn loved his ancestry.’
- ‘Nevertheless, he was wealthy enough to build Vaucluse House, still one of the best Georgian buildings in the country, and live there, as he said, like a squire at home.’
- ‘Black portrays Roosevelt as a patrician country squire who harbored a strong social conscience and a prejudice against the new industrial rich.’
- ‘A Grade II-listed former windmill, the Round House was built in 1790 by local squire Earl Bathurst, who later became lord chancellor, and was used as a windmill until the early 1830s.’
- ‘The rise of chamber knights and squires was a general phenomenon of the fourteenth century, and was not confined to the well-known court of Richard II.’
- ‘The squires were talking earlier and it sounds like the Duke has set up a large bath house for the contestants and their parties off of the north field.’
- ‘He has long yearned the quiet life of a country squire in a little Cornish style farm in Sussex where he could raise bees.’
- ‘We know that he was born into a family of high standing in France and he describes himself as a squire, certainly suggesting that his family were wealthy landowners.’
- ‘In the past, stag hunting had been the preserve of the aristocracy and small-scale hare and fox hunting that of the country squires.’
- ‘Francis Edgeworth was the first of a line of four squires who lived at Cranalagh, two miles north of Mastrim, until Frank, the fourth, built his new house at what became Edgeworthstown.’
- ‘The story, told by the aged steward Thady M'Quirk, serves as the fictionalized memoir of his service of four successive squires on a remote Irish estate over a period of eighty years.’
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