knight
IPA: nˈaɪt
noun
- (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.
- (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.
- An English surname originating as an occupation for someone who was a mounted soldier.
- A town in Iron County, Wisconsin, United States.
- A settlement on Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.
verb
- (transitive) To confer knighthood upon.
- (chess, transitive) To promote (a pawn) to a knight.
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Examples of "knight" in Sentences
- The knight cut the liana.
- The knight rode on a black horse.
- Knighting Gale is known as seraphic.
- The soldier was knighted by the queen.
- The horse in Indian chess is the knight.
- Beneath is the effigy of a knight in armour.
- The knight in black armor was riding a horse.
- Are we the Knight Errants or the Knights Errant
- It is a beautiful story of a knight and a maiden.
- The flail was predominantly used by knights and foot soldiers.
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