Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word KNIGHT
KNIGHT
Definitions of KNIGHT
- (historical) A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
- (historical) A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
- (by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
- (law, historical) A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.
- (modern) A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
- (literary) A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
- (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.
- (card games, dated) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.
- (modern) Any mushroom belonging to genus Tricholoma.
- (transitive) To confer knighthood upon.
- (chess, transitive) To promote (a pawn) to a knight.
- A English surname from occupations for someone who was a mounted soldier.
- A town in Iron County, Wisconsin, USA.
- A settlement on in Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using KNIGHT in a Sentence
- He is best known for proving Fermat's Last Theorem, for which he was awarded the 2016 Abel Prize and the 2017 Copley Medal and for which he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2000.
- Born in Brooklyn and raised in Detroit, she first gained recognition at the age of 10, when she appeared on the television show Star Search and performed in concert alongside Gladys Knight.
- The series involves the adventures of the Knight Sabers, an all-female group of mercenaries who don powered exoskeletons and fight numerous problems, most frequently rogue robots.
- Robert Montgomery Knight (October 25, 1940 – November 1, 2023) was an American men's college basketball coach.
- A bachelor is first attested as the 12th-century bacheler: a knight bachelor, a knight too young or poor to gather vassals under his own banner.
- The Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight is an American medium-lift tandem-rotor transport helicopter powered by twin turboshaft engines.
- The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named Pohl its 12th recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award in 1993 and he was inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1998, its third class of two dead and two living writers.
- Other historical dramas are fictionalized tales that are based on an actual person and their deeds, such as Braveheart, which is loosely based on the 13th-century knight William Wallace's fight for Scotland's independence.
- Lord Aberdare was born at Duffryn, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, the second son of John Bruce Bruce-Pryce (born John Bruce Knight), a Royal Navy agent and banker, and his first wife, Sarah, daughter of Rev.
- A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity.
- The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America gave him the 2015 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award.
- Lamorna became popular with the artists of the Newlyn School, including Alfred Munnings, Laura Knight and Harold Knight, and is also known for former residents Derek and Jean Tangye who farmed land and wrote "The Minack Chronicles".
- His other novels include film adaptations, media tie-ins, and original works, such as the Apropos of Nothing and Knight Life series.
- was founded in 1965 by Damon Knight in association with a group of writers connected to the Milford Conference, which he also headed.
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century chivalric romance in Middle English alliterative verse.
- Much of Malory's life history is obscure, but he identified himself as a "knight prisoner", apparently reflecting that he was either a criminal, a prisoner-of-war, or suffering some other type of confinement.
- February 9 – Henry, Prince of Wales is made a Knight of the Golden Fleece by Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
- After Charles assumes the throne, he refuses to release his wife Blanche of Burgundy, who is imprisoned for adultery with a Norman knight, from prison, and asks that the marriage be annulled.
- Outside his father's unfinished works, Christopher edited three tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (with Nevill Coghill) and his father's translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
- The plot revolves around the thwarted, sometimes farcical, efforts of the fat knight Sir John Falstaff to seduce two married women to gain access to their husbands' wealth.
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is an international television game show franchise of British origin, created by David Briggs, Mike Whitehill and Steven Knight.
- Wagner's own libretto for the work is freely based on the 13th-century Middle High German chivalric romance Parzival of the Minnesänger Wolfram von Eschenbach and the Old French chivalric romance Perceval ou le Conte du Graal by the 12th-century trouvère Chrétien de Troyes, recounting different accounts of the story of the Arthurian knight Parzival (Percival) and his spiritual quest for the Holy Grail.
- A knight's tour is a sequence of moves of a knight on a chessboard such that the knight visits every square exactly once.
- September 13 – Breton knight Gilles de Rais is taken into custody, upon an accusation of murdering children brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
- While awaiting for a boat to Italy he is attacked by a Breton knight, but survives the attempted murder.
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