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knight

see also: Knight

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Etymology 1

From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht, from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.

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
(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.

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Translations

French: cavalier
German: Springer, Gaul, Pferd, Ross, Rössel (South German), Rössl (South German)
Italian: cavallo
Portuguese: cavalo
Russian: конь
Spanish: caballo

Etymology 2

From Middle English knighten, kniȝten, from the noun.

Verb

knight (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.

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Knight

Etymology

From Middle English knyghte, from Old English cniht.

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Proper noun

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