Dictionary entry

Squire

Pronunciation: /skwʌɪə/

Pronunciation

/skwʌɪə/

Myanmar Meaning

တောသူဌေး မြေပိုင်ရှင်။ သူရဲကောင်း၏ လက်ပါးစေတပည့်။ အမျိုးသမီးကို လိုက်ပါစောင့်ရှောက်သည်။

Definition

squire /'skwaÇǝ(r) / n ၁။ (in titles Squire ) (ေရွး) (အဂၤလန္တြင္) လူကံုထံ။ ေက်းလက္ေဒသ ေျမပိုင္ရွင္။ ေတာသူေဌး။ ၂။ ( Brit infml or joc ) (ေယာက်္ားအခ်င္းခ်င္းအၾကား ေဖာ္ေရြေသာအားျဖင့္ သံုးေသာ အာလုပ္စကား)။ သူေဌးမင္း။ လူႀကီးမင္း။ What can I get you, squire? ၃။ (ေရွး) သူရဲေကာင္းအရာသို႔ မေရာက္မီ သူရဲေကာင္းတစ္ဦးထံတြင္ လက္ေထာက္ျဖစ္ခဲ့သူ လူရြယ္။

Examples

  1. ‘Scott
  2. by contrast
  3. is very much the country squire
  4. down in town from his home in the Borders.’
  5. ‘The trustworthy parson and the trustworthy squire are the twin pillars of rural life.’
  6. ‘Striding out with his faithful hound at his heels
  7. he would be the picture of the country squire were it not for his somewhat bizarre attire - cut-off shorts
  8. a sleeveless T - shirt and a sailor's cap.’
  9. ‘Deference to the squire and the parson was often a façade
  10. masking constant challenges to authority by poaching and more explicit threats of rick-burning.’
  11. ‘Especially over-optimistic were those landowners who
  12. envying the political rights and responsibilities of the English squire
  13. sought to popularize in Russia the ideas of British liberalism.’
  14. ‘There was also a small English rising in Northumberland
  15. supported mostly by catholic and high Anglican squires who were bankrupt.’
  16. ‘The squire
  17. Sir John Boileau
  18. and the vicar
  19. the Reverend Mr Andrew
  20. were both highly literate men who didn't get on - and both kept diaries
  21. largely about each other.’
  22. ‘Ordinary gentlewomen
  23. daughters not of lords
  24. but of local knights and squires
  25. showed moreover the same sort of awareness of the dignity of their blood and arms as did great ladies like Dervorguilla of Galloway.’
  26. ‘Her father Sir Reginald Sheffield 8th Baronet
  27. squire of Normanby Park
  28. Lincolnshire
  29. was appointed a deputy lieutenant for what was then Humberside in 1985.’
  30. ‘The old 16 th-century Welsh squire - and crook - Sir John Wynn loved his ancestry.’
  31. ‘Nevertheless
  32. he was wealthy enough to build Vaucluse House
  33. still one of the best Georgian buildings in the country
  34. and live there
  35. as he said
  36. like a squire at home.’
  37. ‘Black portrays Roosevelt as a patrician country squire who harbored a strong social conscience and a prejudice against the new industrial rich.’
  38. ‘A Grade II-listed former windmill
  39. the Round House was built in 1790 by local squire Earl Bathurst
  40. who later became lord chancellor
  41. and was used as a windmill until the early 1830s.’
  42. ‘The rise of chamber knights and squires was a general phenomenon of the fourteenth century
  43. and was not confined to the well-known court of Richard II.’
  44. ‘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.’
  45. ‘He has long yearned the quiet life of a country squire in a little Cornish style farm in Sussex where he could raise bees.’
  46. ‘We know that he was born into a family of high standing in France and he describes himself as a squire
  47. certainly suggesting that his family were wealthy landowners.’
  48. ‘In the past
  49. stag hunting had been the preserve of the aristocracy and small-scale hare and fox hunting that of the country squires.’
  50. ‘Francis Edgeworth was the first of a line of four squires who lived at Cranalagh
  51. two miles north of Mastrim
  52. until Frank
  53. the fourth
  54. built his new house at what became Edgeworthstown.’
  55. ‘The story
  56. told by the aged steward Thady M'Quirk
  57. serves as the fictionalized memoir of his service of four successive squires on a remote Irish estate over a period of eighty years.’