Knight

//naɪt// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An English surname originating as an occupation for someone who was a mounted soldier.

    "Though teams from China have hoisted the Summoner’s Cup, which goes to the Worlds champion, it’s always been South Korean mid laners who have starred on those teams. Erzberger said Knight wants to be the first Chinese mid laner to hoist that trophy — and maybe become a national treasure himself."

  2. 2
    A town in Iron County, Wisconsin, United States.
  3. 3
    A settlement on Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.
Noun
  1. 1
    A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord. historical

    "Not all knights held fiefs, and it was not unusual for knights to buy themselves freedom from the obligations of the fief, or even to abscond with the arms provided by their lord, becoming a part of the large number of unenfeoffed, wandering knights available for hire […]"

  2. 2
    a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa) wordnet
  3. 3
    A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire. historical
  4. 4
    originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit wordnet
  5. 5
    An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages. broadly

    "King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table"

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  1. 6
    A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee. historical
  2. 7
    A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch. modern
  3. 8
    A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest. literary
  4. 9
    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.

    "The knight may move to one of the squares nearest to that on which it stands but not on the same rank, file or diagonal. […] There are two knights, on the squares g1 and e1, and one of them moves to the square f3: either Ngf3 or Nef3, as the case may be."

  5. 10
    A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack. dated
  6. 11
    Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.
  7. 12
    Any mushroom belonging to genus Tricholoma. modern
  8. 13
    A species of nymphalid butterfly, Lebadea martha, found in tropical and subtropical Asia.
Verb
  1. 1
    To confer knighthood upon. transitive

    "The king knighted the young squire."

  2. 2
    raise (someone) to knighthood wordnet
  3. 3
    To promote (a pawn) to a knight. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (“boy; servant, knight”), from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.

Etymology 2

From Middle English knighten, kniȝten, from the noun. Cognate with Middle High German knehten.

Etymology 3

From Middle English knyghte, from Old English cniht (“youth; servant”).

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