knight

Meaning of knight

noun
  1. A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
  2. A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
  3. (by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
    King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
  4. (modern) A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
  5. A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
  6. 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.
  7. A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
  8. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.
  9. (modern) A generic name for various mushrooms belonging to the fungal order gilled mushrooms; scientific name Tricholoma.
verb
  1. To confer knighthood upon.
    The king knighted the young squire.
  2. To promote (a pawn) to a knight.

Information about knight

  • The plural form of knight is: knights.
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Hyphenation of knight

knight

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • knight is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

knight synonyms

Meaning horse:

horse

Meaning dub:

dub

Translation of knight

Words that rhyme with knight

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