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   Knight

   /nīt/

   

   noun

   • 1. (in the Middle Ages) a man who served his sovereign or lord as a mounted soldier in armor.
   • ▪ (in the Middle Ages) a man raised by a sovereign to honorable military rank after service as a page and squire.
   • ▪ a man devoted to the service of a woman or a cause: literary "in all your quarrels I will be your knight"
   • ▪ (in ancient Rome) a member of the class of equites.
   • ▪ (in ancient Greece) a citizen of the second class in Athens.
   • 2. (in the UK) a man awarded a nonhereditary title by the sovereign in recognition of merit or service and entitled to use the honorific “Sir” in front of his name.
   • 3. a chess piece, typically with its top shaped like a horse's head, that moves by jumping to the opposite corner of a rectangle two squares by three.

   verb

   • 1. invest (someone) with the title of knight: "he was knighted for his services to industry"

   Word Origin Old Englishcniht ‘boy, youth, servant’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch knecht and German Knecht. knight (sense 2 of the noun) dates from the mid 16th century; the uses relating to Greek and Roman history derive from comparison with medieval knights.

   Derivatives

   • 1. knightlike adjective

   Scrabble Points: 14

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