Meaning of knight | Babel Free

Definitions

1. horse
2. An English surname originating as an occupation for someone who was a mounted soldier.
3. A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord
4. A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
   historical
5. A town in Iron County, Wisconsin, United States.
6. A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire
7. A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
   historical
8. heroin
9. A settlement on Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.
10. An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages
11. An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
    broadly
12. ox (strong clumsy person)
13. A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee
14. A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.
    historical
15. master, hotshot
16. A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch
17. A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
    modern
18. A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
    literary
19. 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.
20. A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
    dated
21. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.
22. Any mushroom belonging to genus Tricholoma.
    modern
23. A species of nymphalid butterfly, Lebadea martha, found in tropical and subtropical Asia.

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Examples

“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 […]”

“King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table”

“There are two tombs, each bearing effigies of a knight and his lady. One is 14th century, the other 15th century. The earlier knight wears chain mail and his lady has long, flowing hair. The later knight has plate armour, and his wife wears a wimple.”

“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.”

“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.”

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