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querry

querry is the obsolete form of equerry.

Meaning of equerry

Noun

equerry (plural equerries)

  1. An officer responsible for the care and supervision of the horses of a person of rank.
  2. (UK) A personal attendant to a head of state, a member of a royal family, or a national representative.
    • A bedroom is provided for the equerry and one for the King's physician. […] The compartments for the doctor and equerry are panelled in West African betula and cherry mahogany.1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, pages 36, 47

Proper noun capitalized: Querry

Querry (plural Querrys)

  1. A surname from Scottish Gaelic.

Forms of querry

Noun
pluralquerries
Proper noun
pluralQuerrys

Origin of querry

Reduced form of McQuarrie.

Questions about querry

What does querry mean?
Querry means a surname from Scottish Gaelic.
What is querry the obsolete form of?
Querry is the obsolete form of equerry.
What part of speech is querry?
Querry is a proper noun.

Words near querry in the dictionary

  1. querquedules
  2. Querquetulanae
  3. Querrey
  4. Querreys
  5. querries
  6. querry
  7. Querrys
  8. quersprung
  9. Querubin
  10. querulant
  11. querulants

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Adapted from Wiktionary: querry (page history and authors); Querry (page history and authors); equerry (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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