esquire

Examples

• All

• You want to send in Mr. Jamison, Esquire, please?

  The Believers (1987)

• Residence of George Banks, Esquire.

  Mary Poppins (1964)

• "Melvin Banks, Esquire, Attorney at Law"?

  Life (1999)

• OK, what do you want, Mr Don Birnam, Esquire?

  The Lost Weekend (1945)

• It is with great honour that I should like to propose Mr Henry Hunt Esquire as our chairman.

  Peterloo (2018)

• The envelope was addressed in faded blue ink to Robert Miles, Esquire.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Please send the money by Adams Express Cara V Winters, Esquire Dayton, OH.

• And now the man whose brilliant legal mind shone the light on the pathway to freedom - Mr Arthur Ulysses Belt Esquire!

  North (1994)

• I am E.P. Arnold Royalton, Esquire President and Chairman of Royalton Industries.

  Speed Racer (2008)

• Mr. Smith, Esquire, has just been elected to the local council.

Synonyms

E

Esq

vsesquire

• Formal

1 8.1

Title placed after a person's name to show respect, often used for lawyers in the United States

is originally a general respectful post-name title for men, not occupation-specific

Surface Forms

Etymology