knight
See also: Knight
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English cniht (“boy, servant”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *knehtaz. Cognate with West Frisian knjocht, Dutch knecht, and German Knecht, all meaning 'servant'.
Alternative forms
Noun
knight (plural knights)
- (historical) A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
- (historical) A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
- (by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
- King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
- (modern) A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
- (literary) A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
- (chess) 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.
- (card games, dated) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template..
Synonyms
- (chess piece): horse (informal)
Derived terms
Terms derived from the noun knight
- belted knight
- knight adventurer
- knight adventurous
- knightage
- Knight Bachelor, knight bachelor
- knight-bairn
- knight-banneret
- knight baronet
- knight brother
- knight caligate of arms
- knight-cross
- knight-errant
- knightess
- knightfully
- knight-head
- knighthood
- knightify
- knight in shining armor, knight in shining armour
- knightless
- knightling
- knightly
- 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 carpet
- knight of the chamber
- Knight of the Bath
- knight of the blade
- knight of the brush
- 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 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 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
- Knights of Columbus
- Knights of Labor
- Knights of Pythias
- Knightsbridge
- knight's cross
- knight-service
- knight's fee
- knightship
- knight's milfoil
- knight's move
- 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
- Military Knight of Windsor
- Naval Knights of Windsor
- kanigget
Translations
warrior, especially of the Middle Ages
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person on whom a knighthood has been conferred
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chess piece
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See also
Chess pieces in English · chess pieces, chessmen (see also: chess) (layout · text) | |||||
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king | queen | rook, castle | bishop | knight | pawn |
Etymology 2
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English knighten, kniȝten, from the noun. Cognate with Middle High German knehten.
Verb
knight (third-person singular simple present knights, present participle knighting, simple past and past participle knighted)
- (transitive) To confer knighthood upon.
- The king knighted the young squire.
- (chess, transitive) To promote (a pawn) to a knight.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from the verb to knight
Translations
to confer a knighthood upon
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See also
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English cniht, from Proto-Germanic *knehtaz.
Pronunciation
Noun
knight (plural knights)
Descendants
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