knight in English

noun

1

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

The crossbow was really the first hand-held weapon that could be used by an untrained soldier to injure or kill a knight in plate armour.

synonyms: cavalier, cavalryman, horseman, lord, noble, nobleman, chevalier, paladin, banneret

2

(in the UK) a man awarded a nonhereditary title by the sovereign in recognition of merit or service and entitled to use the honorific “Sir” in front of his name.

Counts, knights , barons and marquesses gathered in the guilded ballroom of the hotel to mark the focal event of the aristocratic social calendar.

3

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.

In chess, if you move your knight on to a pawn's square, the pawn's a goner.

verb

1

invest (someone) with the title of knight.

He was knighted in 2003 for services to public life in Scotland.

noun

• cavalier, cavalryman, horseman, lord, noble, nobleman, chevalier, paladin, banneret
• horse

verb

• dub

Use "knight" in a sentence

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32. He was made an honourary knight.

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