knight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nīt
ipa: /naɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: night
homophone: nite
Forms: form: knights
form: knyght
Etymology: From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (“boy; servant, knight”), from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.
Senses: examples: text: Not all knights held fiefs, and it was not unusual for knights to buy themselves freedom from the obligations of the fief, or even to abscond with the arms provided by their lord, becoming a part of the large number of unenfeoffed, wandering knights available for hire […]
ref: 2001, Michael S. Drake, Problematics of Military Power: Government, Discipline and the Subject of Violence, →ISBN, page 97:
glosses: A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
glosses: A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
examples: text: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
text: There are two tombs, each bearing effigies of a knight and his lady. One is 14th century, the other 15th century. The earlier knight wears chain mail and his lady has long, flowing hair. The later knight has plate armour, and his wife wears a wimple.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 54:
glosses: An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
topics: law
glosses: A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.
glosses: A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
glosses: A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
examples: text: The knight may move to one of the squares nearest to that on which it stands but not on the same rank, file or diagonal. […] There are two knights, on the squares g1 and e1, and one of them moves to the square f3: either Ngf3 or Nef3, as the case may be.
ref: 2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, in FIDE, pages 5, 22:
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A chess piece, often in the shape of a horse's head, that is moved two squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
hyponyms: dusky knight
glosses: Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.
glosses: Any mushroom belonging to genus Tricholoma.
glosses: A species of nymphalid butterfly, Lebadea martha, found in tropical and subtropical Asia.
Synonyms: sense: chess piece
word: horse
Hyponyms: knight banneret
banneret
Coordinate terms: knight's fee
knight service
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: ale-knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
taxonomic: Tricholoma virgatum
word: ashen knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: beknight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: belted knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
taxonomic: Tricholoma fulvum
word: birch knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
taxonomic: Tricholoma acerbum
word: bitter knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: black knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
taxonomic: Tricholoma columbetta
word: blue-spot knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
taxonomic: Tricholoma focale
word: booted knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: burnt knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
taxonomic: Tricholoma ustale
word: burnt knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: carpet knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
taxonomic: Tricholoma stiparophyllum
word: chemical knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Dark Knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
taxonomic: Tricholoma atrosquamosum
word: dark-scaled knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
taxonomic: Tricholoma sejunctum
word: deceiving knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
taxonomic: Ypthima arctous
word: dusky knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: elf-knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Four Knights Game
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
taxonomic: Tricholoma colossus
word: giant knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
taxonomic: Tricholoma cingulatum
word: girdled knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: gray knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
taxonomic: Tricholoma terreum
word: grey knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: imperial knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight adventurer
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight adventurous
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knightage
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight anole
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Knight Bachelor
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight bachelor
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight-bairn
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight banneret
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight-banneret
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight baronet
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight brother
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight caligate
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight caligate of arms
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight-cross
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knightdom
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight errant
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight-errant
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight-errantry
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight-erratic
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knightess
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knightfully
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knighthead
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight-head
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knighthood
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knightify
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight in shining armor
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight in shining armour
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word: knightless
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knightlet
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knightlike
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knightling
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knightly
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knightmare
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight marshal
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Knight Marshal
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight-marshal
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word: knight-money
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word: knight of adventurers
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of arms
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Knight of Grace
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of industry
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the industry
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Knight of Justice
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Knight of Malta
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Knight of Parliament
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Knight of Rhodes
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of St Crispin
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Knight of St John
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Knight of the Bath
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the blade
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the brush
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the carpet
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the chamber
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the cleaver
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the collar
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Knight of the Commonty
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the cue
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the elbow
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the field
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Knight of the Garter
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the grammar
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the green baize
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the green cloth
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the hammer
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the knife
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the needle
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the order of the fork
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the pen
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the pencil
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the pestle
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word: knight of the post
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the quill
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the rainbow
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the road
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Knight of the Round Table
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Knight of the Rueful Countenance
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word: knight of the shears
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the shire
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Knight of the Shire
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the spigot
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Knight of the Spur
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the square flag
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight of the stick
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word: knight of the thimble
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Knight of the Thistle
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word: knight of the vapour
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word: knight of the wheel
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word: knight of the whip
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word: knight of the whipping-post
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word: Knight of Windsor
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knightress
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Knightsbridge
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight's cross
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight-service
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight service
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight's fee
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knightship
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
taxonomic: Achillea millefolium
word: knight's milfoil
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight's move
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Knights of Columbus
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Knights of Labor
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Knights of Pythias
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight's pondwort
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight's progress
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word: knight's star
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight's water-sengreen
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight's wort
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
taxonomic: Achillea millefolium
word: knight's woundwort
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Knight Templar
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight wager
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight-weed
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knight-wife
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: knightwise
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: lance-knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: learning-knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
taxonomic: Tricholoma imbricatum
word: matt knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: merknight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Military Knight of Windsor
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Naval Knights of Windsor
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
taxonomic: Tricholoma aurantium
word: orange knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
taxonomic: Tricholoma populinum
word: poplar knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
taxonomic: Tricholoma vaccinum
word: scaly knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
taxonomic: Tricholoma apium
word: scented knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: silver knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
alt: Psaltoda plaga
word: silver knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
taxonomic: Tricholoma saponaceum
word: soapy knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
taxonomic: Tricholoma sulphureum
word: sulphur knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: Tolleshunt Knights
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: unknight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
taxonomic: Tricholoma stans
word: upright knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: white knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: white-knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
word: whiteknight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
taxonomic: Tricholoma argyraceum
alt: syn. Tricholoma sculpturatum
word: yellowing knight
sense: Terms derived from the noun knight
taxonomic: Tricholoma equestre
word: yellow knight
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