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单词 squirearch
释义

Definition of squirearch in English:

squirearch

noun ˈskwʌɪəˌrɑːkˈskwī(ə)ˌrärk
  • A member of the squirearchy.

    地主;乡绅

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He appears as a ‘squirearch’, a man of standing in Megara, but subject to criticism and hostility, eventually betrayed by those he trusted, dispossessed of his estates in a civic upheaval, and forced into exile, where he dreams of revenge.
    • Like one of Henry Fielding's squirearchs, Noel planted his library not in some clattering urban center, but in his serene country seat.
    • Though there were some mutterings from the squirearchs, Eccles was widely applauded for trying to shift Tory emphasis from ‘inheritors of wealth’ to ‘creators of wealth.’

Derivatives

  • squirearchical

  • adjectiveskwʌɪəˌˈrɑːkɪk(ə)l
    • The gullible Albert and his deeply honest best friend Louis Fillou are destined from birth to be on the ‘other side’ in this kind of squirearchical society, coming as they do from peasant families.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Thus the furniture, the framed photographs, the interesting certificates of honours and awards bestowed on the family capture a certain squirearchical ambience which no mere designer would be able to replicate.
      • Indeed the middle stretch of the Hudson Valley, particularly the eastern bank, from just south of Albany through Tivoli, Hyde Park, Poughkeepsie, and Garrison to Peekskill, was laid out in a series of grand squirearchical estates unmatched by any concentration in England or France.
      • After naval service at the end of the second world war war, he won a scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford, where he gained a first-class degree in modern history, before writing his doctoral thesis on Coke of Holkham and the agricultural revolution - a topic well suited to his bluff, squirearchical manner.
      • In Wuthering Heights, one is irresistibly reminded of Rob Roy's setting in the wilds of Northumberland, among the uncouth and quarrelsome squirearchical Osbaldistones, who spend their time drinking and gambling.

Origin

Mid 19th century: back-formation from squirearchy, on the pattern of words such as monarch.

Rhymes

hierarch

Definition of squirearch in US English:

squirearch

nounˈskwī(ə)ˌrärk
  • A member of the squirearchy.

    地主;乡绅

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He appears as a ‘squirearch’, a man of standing in Megara, but subject to criticism and hostility, eventually betrayed by those he trusted, dispossessed of his estates in a civic upheaval, and forced into exile, where he dreams of revenge.
    • Though there were some mutterings from the squirearchs, Eccles was widely applauded for trying to shift Tory emphasis from ‘inheritors of wealth’ to ‘creators of wealth.’
    • Like one of Henry Fielding's squirearchs, Noel planted his library not in some clattering urban center, but in his serene country seat.

Origin

Mid 19th century: back-formation from squirearchy, on the pattern of words such as monarch.

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