knight
Meaning
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- A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
- A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
- An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
- A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.
- A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
- A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
- 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.
- A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.
- Any mushroom belonging to genus Tricholoma.
Synonyms
confer a knighthood
honous
cavalero
raise nobility peerage
long horse
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/naɪt/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (“boy; servant, knight”), from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.
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