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knightship.

The honor bestowed that makes someone a knight.

10 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. The honor bestowed that makes someone a knight.

  2. Honorific formal address to a knighted person. Usually used with the relevant possessive pronoun.

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle English knyghtschipe; by surface analysis, knight + ship.

noun
  1. A spaceship, in a cellular automaton, which moves knightwise (i.e., moving two spaces along the x-axis for every space it moves along the y-axis [or vice versa], in the manner of a chess knight); a spaceship which moves with slope 2; a (2,1) spaceship.

Where this word comes from

From knight + ship.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.