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Squire vs Sergeant - What's the difference?

squire | sergeant |

As nouns the difference between squire and sergeant

is that squire is a shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight while sergeant is uK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.

As a verb squire

is to attend as a squire.

As a proper noun Sergeant is

{{surname|lang=en}.

squire

English

(wikipedia squire)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
  • A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
  • A male attendant on a great personage.
  • A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
  • (UK, colloquial)

    • Verb

    (squir)
  • To attend as a squire
    • (Chaucer)
  • To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection
    • to squire a lady
    (Goldsmith)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) See square.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.
  • * 1598 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene)
    • But temperaunce, said he, with golden squire , / Betwixt them both can measure out a meane.
  • * 1598 , (William Shakespeare), (w, Love's Labour's Lost) , V, 2, 474.
    • do not you know my lady's foot by the squire .
  • *
    • as for a workman not to know his axe, saw, squire , or any other toole, […].
  • * 1628 , (William Shakespeare), (w, The Winter's Tale) , IV, 4, 348.
    • twelve foot and a half by the squire .

    Anagrams

    * *

    sergeant

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete) * sergeaunt (obsolete) * serjeant (obsolete)

    Noun

    (wikipedia sergeant) (en noun)
  • UK army rank with NATO code , senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.
  • The highest rank of noncommissioned officer in some non-naval military forces and police.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
    • , title=Well Tackled! , chapter=13 citation , passage=“Yes, there are two distinct sets of footprints, both wearing rubber shoes—one I think ordinary plimsolls, the other goloshes,” replied the sergeant .}}
  • (legal, historical) A lawyer of the highest rank, equivalent to the doctor of civil law.
    • (Blackstone)
  • (UK, historical)
    • sergeant surgeon, i.e. a servant, or attendant, surgeon
  • A fish, the cobia.

    • Related terms

    * sergeant baker * sarge

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