knight
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
board-games
card-games
chess
entomology
games
law
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (“boy; servant, knight”), from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.
Inflected forms:
form: knights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: knyght
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: knights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: knighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: knighted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: knighted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: 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 […]
gloss: A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
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.
gloss: A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
pos: noun
tags: modern
gloss: A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
pos: noun
tags: literary
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.
pos: noun
gloss: Any mushroom belonging to genus Tricholoma.
pos: noun
tags: modern
gloss: A species of nymphalid butterfly, Lebadea martha, found in tropical and subtropical Asia.
pos: noun
gloss: To confer knighthood upon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The king knighted the young squire.
Highborn boys were sent off to another noble household at the age of about seven, to serve strenuously as pages and later as esquires to their lord before they themselves were knighted, looked around for a "lady" and incidentally got married and produced more knightlets, whom they never got to know at all well.
gloss: To promote (a pawn) to a knight.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: dub
Related words: ♘
♞
paladin
baronet
Derived words: ale-knight
ashen knight
beknight
belted knight
birch knight
bitter knight
black knight
blue-spot knight
booted knight
burnt knight
carpet knight
chemical knight
Dark Knight
dark-scaled knight
deceiving knight
dusky knight
elf-knight
Four Knights Game
giant knight
girdled knight
gray knight
grey knight
imperial knight
knight adventurer
knight adventurous
knightage
knight anole
Knight Bachelor
knight bachelor
knight-bairn
knight banneret
knight-banneret
knight baronet
knight brother
knight caligate
knight caligate of arms
knight-cross
knightdom
knight errant
knight-errant
knight-errantry
knight-erratic
knightess
knightfully
knighthead
knight-head
knighthood
knightify
knight in shining armor
knight in shining armour
knightless
knightlet
knightlike
knightling
knightly
knightmare
knight marshal
Knight Marshal
knight-marshal
knight-money
knight of adventurers
knight of arms
Knight of Grace
knight of industry
knight of the industry
Knight of Justice
Knight of Malta
Knight of Parliament
Knight of Rhodes
knight of St Crispin
Knight of St John
Knight of the Bath
knight of the blade
knight of the brush
knight of the carpet
knight of the chamber
knight of the cleaver
knight of the collar
Knight of the Commonty
knight of the cue
knight of the elbow
knight of the field
Knight of the Garter
knight of the grammar
knight of the green baize
knight of the green cloth
knight of the hammer
knight of the knife
knight of the needle
knight of the order of the fork
knight of the pen
knight of the pencil
knight of the pestle
knight of the post
knight of the quill
knight of the rainbow
knight of the road
Knight of the Round Table
Knight of the Rueful Countenance
knight of the shears
knight of the shire
Knight of the Shire
knight of the spigot
Knight of the Spur
knight of the square flag
knight of the stick
knight of the thimble
Knight of the Thistle
knight of the vapour
knight of the wheel
knight of the whip
knight of the whipping-post
Knight of Windsor
knightress
Knightsbridge
knight's cross
knight-service
knight service
knight's fee
knightship
knight's milfoil
knight's move
Knights of Columbus
Knights of Labor
Knights of Pythias
knight's pondwort
knight's progress
knight's star
knight's water-sengreen
knight's wort
knight's woundwort
Knight Templar
knight wager
knight-weed
knight-wife
knightwise
lance-knight
learning-knight
matt knight
merknight
Military Knight of Windsor
Naval Knights of Windsor
orange knight
poplar knight
scaly knight
scented knight
silver knight
soapy knight
sulphur knight
Tolleshunt Knights
unknight
upright knight
white-knight
whiteknight
white knight
white knight syndrome
yellowing knight
yellow knight
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