Definitions for Knight
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Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. knight(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

2. knight, horse(verb)

   a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)

3. knight, dub(verb)

   raise (someone) to knighthood

   "The Beatles were knighted"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Knight(ProperNoun)

   An English status surname for someone who was a mounted soldier.

Origin: knyghte from cniht, youth or servant

Webster Dictionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Knight(noun)

   a young servant or follower; a military attendant

2. Knight(noun)

   in feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life

3. Knight(noun)

   one on whom knighthood, a dignity next below that of baronet, is conferred by the sovereign, entitling him to be addressed as Sir; as, Sir John

4. Knight(noun)

   a champion; a partisan; a lover

5. Knight(noun)

   a piece used in the game of chess, usually bearing a horse's head

6. Knight(noun)

   a playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack

7. Knight(verb)

   to dub or create (one) a knight; -- done in England by the sovereign only, who taps the kneeling candidate with a sword, saying: Rise, Sir ---

Origin: [OE. knight, cniht, knight, soldier, AS. cniht, cneoht, a boy, youth, attendant, military follower; akin to D. & G. knecht servant; perh. akin to E. kin.]

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1. Knight

   A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a monarch or other political leader for service to the monarch or country, especially in a military capacity. Historically, in Europe, knighthood has been conferred upon mounted warriors. During the High Middle Ages, knighthood was considered a class of lower nobility. By the Late Middle Ages, the rank had become associated with the ideals of chivalry, a code of conduct for the perfect courtly Christian warrior. Since the Early Modern period, the title of knight is purely honorific, usually bestowed by a monarch, as in the British honours system, often for non-military service to the country. Historically, the ideals of chivalry were popularized in medieval literature, especially the Matter of Britain and Matter of France, the former based on Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, written in the 1130s. Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, written in 1485, was important in defining the ideal of chivalry which is essential to the modern concept of the knight as an elite warrior sworn to uphold the values of faith, loyalty, courage, and honour. During the Renaissance, the genre of chivalric romance became popular in literature, growing ever more idealistic and eventually giving rise to a new form of realism in literature popularised by Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. This novel explored the ideals of knighthood and their incongruity with the reality of Cervantes' world. In the late medieval period, new methods of warfare began to render classical knights in armour obsolete, but the titles remained in many nations.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Knight

   nīt, n. one of gentle birth and bred to arms, admitted in feudal times to a certain honourable military rank: (Shak.) an attendant: a champion: the rank, with the title 'Sir,' next below baronets: a piece used in the game of chess.—v.t. to create a knight.—ns. Knight′age, the collective body of knights; Knight′-bach′elor, one who has been knighted merely, not made a member of any titular order; Knight′-bann′eret, a knight who carried a banner, and who was superior in rank to the knight-bachelor; Knight′-err′ant, a knight who travelled in search of adventures; Knight′-err′antry; Knight′hood, the character or privilege of a knight: the order or fraternity of knights; Knight′hood-err′ant (Tenn.), the body of knights-errant.—adj. Knight′less (Spens.), unbecoming a knight.—n. Knight′liness, the bearing or duties of a knight.—adj. and adv. Knight′ly.—ns. Knight′-mar′shal, formerly an officer of the royal household; Knight′-serv′ice, tenure by a knight on condition of military service.—Knight of industry, a footpad, thief, or sharper; Knight of the carpet, a civil knight, as opposed to a military, so called because created kneeling on a carpet, not the field; Knight of the pestle, an apothecary; Knight of the post, one familiar with the whipping-post or pillory; Knight of the road, a highwayman; Knight of the shire, a member of parliament for a county; Knight's fee, the amount of land with which a knight was invested on his creation; Knights of Labour, in the United States, a national labour organisation; Knights of Malta (see Hospitaller); Knights of St Crispin, shoemakers; Knights of the rainbow, flunkeys from their liveries; Knights of the shears, tailors; Knights of the spigot, tapsters, publicans; Knights of the stick, compositors; Knights of the whip, coachmen; Knights Templars (see Templar). [A.S. cniht Ger. and Dut. knecht, Dan. knegt.]

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Etymology and Origins(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Knight

   From the Saxon knicht, a servant, which is the origin also of the modern German knecht, a man-servant.

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Knight' in Nouns Frequency: #2651

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Knight in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Knight in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Knight in a Sentence

1. Zoey Kravitz:

   The Dark Knight Rises.

2. Stephen Langton:

   greatest knight that ever lived

3. Aaron J. Munzer:

   I'm your Knight in shining shoes.

4. Denise Mattison:

   He was my knight in shining armor.

5. Pam Gottsacker:

   Another Sheboygan Knight is going to the NBA.

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