knight
noun · verbA2Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Danh từ
noun- 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.
(broadly)(by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
- 4.
(historical)(law, historical) A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.
- 5.
(modern)A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
- 6.
(literary)A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
- 7.
(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.
- 8.
(dated)(card games, dated) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
- 9.
(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.
- 10.
(modern)Any mushroom belonging to genus Tricholoma.
- 11.
A species of nymphalid butterfly, Lebadea martha, found in tropical and subtropical Asia.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To confer knighthood upon.
The king knighted the young squire.
Đồng nghĩa: beknight
- 2.
(transitive)(chess, transitive) To promote (a pawn) to a knight.
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From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (boy; servant, knight), from *kneht.