knight.
A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
Meaning & usage
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.
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
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.
A species of nymphalid butterfly, Lebadea martha, found in tropical and subtropical Asia.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (“boy; servant, knight”), from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.
To confer knighthood upon.
The king knighted the young squire.
To promote (a pawn) to a knight.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English knighten, kniȝten, from the noun. Cognate with Middle High German knehten.
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