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Definition

United States: a lawyer — typically abbreviated after the name

United Kingdom: a title of respect for a man

Esquire is also the name of a magazine. As a common noun, esquire was the title of a Middle Ages attendant and shield bearer to a knight. The attendant was also typically a candidate for knighthood. See the linked Wikipedia article for subsequent, but still dated, British usage.

Jennifer Smith, Esq.

Esq. = a lawyer

Grubb, Grubb, and Bun-owes would sell by auction the effects of the late Bilbo Baggins Esquire, of Bag-End, Underhill, Hobbiton.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Hobbit
This ticket had been sold to J. L. Weatherby, Esq. Its number had been drawn in the second unit drawing, and had been a ticket of the winning horse.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road
Mr. Arnold Spirit, Jr. Esq., PhD* (Pretty hot Dude).
Sherman Alexie -- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
It will be but the loss of the Esquire after his name.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
It was Phileas Fogg, Esquire.
Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days
It was sent to U.N. Owen, Esq., c/o Isaac Morris, and was understood to be required for the amateur performance of a hitherto unacted play.
Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None
Behind them, but still upon the dais or elevated portion of the hall, stood the esquires of the Order, in white dresses of an inferior quality.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
May I also present Mr. Bartleby Bumble, Esquire?
Libba Bray -- A Great and Terrible Beauty
It was directed to Philip Pip, Esquire, and on the top of the superscription were the words, "PLEASE READ THIS, HERE."
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
'Well, I am sorry the esquire can't come yet,' says my landlord; 'I should have been heartily glad to have seen him.
Daniel Defoe -- Moll Flanders
I took "Esquire" for a term of reverence, and I think it stood for that with him; we were always aware that Daddy loved him.
Eudora Welty -- One Writer's Beginnings
So far I've been through a Mademoiselle magazine, an old Esquire from the eighties, a Ms.
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
Oliver glanced at it, and saw that it was directed to Harry Maylie, Esquire, at some great lord's house in the country; where, he could not make out.
Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist
Forty knights and as many esquires awaited him outside the Red Keep's stables.
George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
William Dorrit, Esquire Frederick Dorrit, Esquire Edward Dorrit, Esquire Miss Dorrit Miss Amy Dorrit Mrs General and Suite.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
Courtesy of Daniel J. Murphy, Esq. Lieutenant Murphy and his fiancee.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
I am Robert Shallow, sir; a poor esquire of this county, and one of the king's justices of the peace: what is your good pleasure with me?
William Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 2
Copperfield, Esquire,' said the ticket-porter, touching his hat with his little cane.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
Eh! what! it is, I declare, a commission, appointing Richard Jones, Esquire, sheriff of the county.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pioneers

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