knight

Meanings

Plural: knights

Noun

• originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit
• a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
• 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.
• An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
• A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.
• 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.
• Any mushroom belonging to genus Tricholoma.
• A species of nymphalid butterfly, Lebadea martha, found in tropical and subtropical Asia.

Verb

• raise (someone) to knighthood
  • "The Beatles were knighted"
• To confer knighthood upon.
• To promote (a pawn) to a knight.

Synonyms

beknight, dub, horse

Related Words

baronet, bishop, castle, king, paladin, pawn, queen, rook, ♘, ♞