knight
See also: Knight
English
A knight (warrior).
A knight (chess).
Etymology 1
From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (“boy; servant, knight”), from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.
Alternative forms
Noun
knight (plural knights)
- (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.
- King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
- (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.
Synonyms
- (chess piece): horse (informal)
Hyponyms
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Terms derived from the noun knight
- ale-knight
- ashen knight (Tricholoma virgatum)
- belted knight
- birch knight (Tricholoma fulvum)
- bitter knight (Tricholoma acerbum)
- black knight
- blue-spot knight (Tricholoma columbetta)
- booted knight (Tricholoma focale)
- burnt knight (Tricholoma ustale)
- carpet knight
- chemical knight (Tricholoma stiparophyllum)
- Dark Knight
- dark-scaled knight (Tricholoma atrosquamosum)
- deceiving knight (Tricholoma sejunctum)
- dusky knight (Ypthima arctous)
- giant knight (Tricholoma colossus)
- girdled knight (Tricholoma cingulatum)
- gray knight, grey knight (Tricholoma terreum)
- imperial knight
- kanigget
- knight adventurer
- knight adventurous
- knightage
- Knight Bachelor, knight bachelor
- knight-bairn
- knight-banneret
- knight banneret
- knight baronet
- knight brother
- knight caligate
- knight caligate of arms
- knight-cross
- knight-errant
- knight errant
- knight-errantry
- knight-erratic
- knightess
- knightfully
- knight-head
- knighthood
- knightify
- knight in shining armor, knight in shining armour
- knightless
- knightling
- knightly
- knightmare
- knight marshal
- Knight Marshal, knight-marshal
- knight-money
- knight of adventurers
- knight of arms
- Knight of Grace
- knight of industry, knight of the industry
- Knight of Justice
- Knight of Malta
- Knight of Parliament
- Knight of Rhodes
- knight of St Crispin
- Knight of St John
- Knight of the Bath
- knight of the blade
- knight of the brush
- knight of the carpet
- knight of the chamber
- knight of the cleaver
- knight of the collar
- Knight of the Commonty
- knight of the cue
- knight of the elbow
- knight of the field
- Knight of the Garter
- knight of the grammar
- knight of the green baize
- knight of the green cloth
- knight of the hammer
- knight of the knife
- knight of the needle
- knight of the order of the fork
- knight of the pen
- knight of the pencil
- knight of the pestle
- knight of the post
- knight of the quill
- knight of the rainbow
- knight of the road
- Knight of the Round Table
- Knight of the Rueful Countenance
- knight of the shears
- Knight of the Shire
- knight of the shire
- knight of the spigot
- Knight of the Spur
- knight of the square flag
- knight of the stick
- knight of the thimble
- Knight of the Thistle
- knight of the vapour
- knight of the wheel
- knight of the whip
- knight of the whipping-post
- Knight of Windsor
- Knightsbridge
- knight's cross
- knight service
- knight-service
- knight's fee
- knightship
- knight's milfoil (Achillea millefolium)
- knight's move
- Knights of Columbus
- Knights of Labor
- Knights of Pythias
- knight's pondwort
- knight's progress
- knight's star
- knight's water-sengreen
- knight's wort
- knight's woundwort (Achillea millefolium)
- Knight Templar
- knight wager
- knight-weed
- knight-wife
- knightwise
- lance-knight
- learning-knight
- matt knight (Tricholoma imbricatum)
- Military Knight of Windsor
- Naval Knights of Windsor
- orange knight (Tricholoma aurantium)
- poplar knight (Tricholoma populinum)
- scaly knight (Tricholoma vaccinum)
- scented knight (Tricholoma apium)
- silver knight
- silver knight (Psaltoda plaga)
- soapy knight (Tricholoma saponaceum)
- sulphur knight (Tricholoma sulphureum)
- Tolleshunt Knights
- upright knight (Tricholoma stans)
- white knight
- white-knight
- yellowing knight (Tricholoma argyraceum, syn. Tricholoma sculpturatum)
- yellow knight (Tricholoma equestre)
Translations
warrior, especially of the Middle Ages
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person on whom a knighthood has been conferred
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chess piece
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See also
| Chess pieces in English · chess pieces, chessmen (see also: chess) (layout · text) | |||||
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- Appendix:Chess pieces
Etymology 2
From Middle English knighten, kniȝten, from the noun. Cognate with Middle High German knehten.
Verb
knight (third-person singular simple present knights, present participle knighting, simple past and past participle knighted)
- (transitive) To confer knighthood upon.
- The king knighted the young squire.
- (chess, transitive) To promote (a pawn) to a knight.
Synonyms
Translations
to confer a knighthood upon
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References
- “knight”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Middle English
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