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Definition knight

Etymology 1

From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (“boy, servant”), from Proto-Germanic *knehtaz. Cognate with West Frisian knjocht, Dutch knecht, and German Knecht, all meaning 'servant'.

Noun

knight (plural knights)

1. (historical) A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
2. (historical) A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
3. (by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
4. (modern) A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
5. (literary) A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
6. (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.
7. (card games, dated) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
8. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.

Etymology 2

From Middle English knighten, kni?ten, 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)

1. (transitive) To confer knighthood upon.
2. (chess, transitive) To promote (a pawn) to a knight.

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