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Knight

nʌɪt

Knight definitions

noun

Inflections:

knight knights

(in the Middle Ages) a man who served his sovereign or lord as a mounted soldier in armour

Synonyms:
chevalier cavalier cavalryman horseman equestrian
- (in the Middle Ages) a man raised by a sovereign to honourable military rank after service as a page and squire
- a gentleman representing a shire or county in Parliament
- a man devoted to the service of a woman or a cause
  
  "in all your quarrels I will be your knight"
- (in ancient Rome) a member of the class of equites
- (in ancient Greece) a citizen of the second class in Athens, called hippeus in Greek
(in the UK) a man awarded a non-hereditary title by the sovereign in recognition of merit or service and entitled to use the honorific ‘Sir’ in front of his name
a chess piece, typically with its top shaped like a horse's head, that moves by jumping to the opposite corner of a rectangle two squares by three. Each player starts the game with two knights

verb

Inflections:

knight knighted knighting knights