knights
Meaning of knights
noun
- 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.
- (by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
- (modern) 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.
- (modern) A generic name for various mushrooms belonging to the fungal order gilled mushrooms; scientific name Tricholoma.
- To confer knighthood upon.
The king knighted the young squire.
- To promote (a pawn) to a knight.
Information about knights
- The singular form of knights is: knight.
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Hyphenation of knights
knights
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- knights is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
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