knight
see also: Knight
Pronunciation Etymology 1
Knight
Etymology
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see also: Knight
Pronunciation Etymology 1
From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht, from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.
Nounknight (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
- (law, historical) A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.
- (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 Ypthima.
- (modern) Any mushroom belonging to genus Tricholoma.
- (chess piece) horse (informal)
- French: chevalier
- German: Ritter
- Italian: cavaliere
- Portuguese: cavaleiro
- Russian: ры́царь
- Spanish: caballero, caballera
- French: cavalier
- German: Springer, Gaul, Pferd, Ross, Rössel (South German), Rössl (South German)
- Italian: cavallo
- Portuguese: cavalo
- Russian: конь
- Spanish: caballo
From Middle English knighten, kniȝten, from the noun.
Verbknight (knights, present participle knighting; simple past and past participle knighted)
(transitive) To confer knighthood upon. - Synonyms: beknight
- The king knighted the young squire.
- (chess, transitive) To promote (a pawn) to a knight.
- French: faire chevalier
- German: zum Ritter schlagen
- Portuguese: dar o título de cavaleiro
- Russian: посвящать в рыцари
Knight
Etymology
From Middle English knyghte, from Old English cniht.
Pronunciation- IPA: /naɪt/
- Surname for someone who was a mounted soldier.
- A town in Iron County, Wisconsin.
- A settlement on Saint Croix.
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