Knight

Noun

 * 1) A warrior, especially of the Middle Ages.
 * King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
 * 1) Nowadays, a person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
 * 2)  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.

Synonyms

 * horse

Derived terms

 * knight adventurer
 * knight adventurous
 * knightage
 * Knight Bachelor, knight bachelor
 * knight-bairn
 * knight-banneret
 * knight baronet
 * knight brother
 * knight caligate of arms
 * knight-cross
 * knight-errant
 * knightess
 * knightfully
 * knight-head
 * knighthood
 * knightify
 * knight in shining armor, knight in shining armour
 * knightless
 * knightling
 * knightly
 * Knight Marshal, knight-marshal
 * knight-money
 * knight of adventurers
 * knight of arms
 * Knight of Grace
 * knight of industry, knight of the industry
 * Knight of Justice
 * Knight of Malta
 * Knight of Parliament
 * Knight of Rhodes
 * knight of St Crispin


 * Knight of St John
 * knight of the carpet
 * knight of the chamber
 * Knight of the Bath
 * knight of the blade
 * knight of the brush
 * knight of the cleaver
 * knight of the collar
 * Knight of the Commonty
 * knight of the cue
 * knight of the elbow
 * knight of the field
 * Knight of the Garter
 * knight of the grammar
 * knight of the knife
 * knight of the needle
 * knight of the order of the fork
 * knight of the pen
 * knight of the pencil
 * knight of the pestle
 * knight of the post
 * knight of the quill
 * knight of the rainbow
 * knight of the road
 * Knight of the Round Table
 * Knight of the Rueful Countenance
 * knight of the shears
 * Knight of the Shire
 * knight of the spigot
 * Knight of the Spur


 * knight of the square flag
 * knight of the stick
 * knight of the thimble
 * Knight of the Thistle
 * knight of the vapour
 * knight of the wheel
 * knight of the whip
 * knight of the whipping-post
 * Knight of Windsor
 * Knights of Columbus
 * Knights of Labor
 * Knights of Pythias
 * knight's cross
 * knight-service
 * knight's fee
 * knightship
 * knight's milfoil
 * knight's move
 * knight's pondwort
 * knight's progress
 * knight's star
 * knight's water-sengreen
 * knight's wort
 * knight's woundwort
 * Knight Templar
 * knight wager
 * knight-weed
 * knight-wife
 * Military Knight of Windsor
 * Naval Knights of Windsor

Verb

 * 1)  To confer knighthood upon.
 * The king knighted the young squire.
 * 1)  To promote (a pawn) to a knight.

Synonyms

 * dub

Derived terms

 * knighted


 * knighting

Adjectives for Knight
moralizing; valiant; dauntless; adventurous; tender-smelling;  solitary;  gallant; cheerful; virgin; sinful; dissembling; blended; belted; irreverent; greasy; assailing; tight-lipped; stalwart; particular; fabled; dubbed; brave.

Thesaurus
Bayard, Don Quixote, Gawain, Lancelot, Ritter, Sidney, Sir Galahad, advance, aggrandize, bachelor, banneret, baronet, battler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, bishop, blade, bravo, brawler, broncobuster, buckaroo, bully, bullyboy, caballero, castle, cavalier, cavalryman, chessman, chevalier, circus rider, combatant, companion, competitor, contender, contestant, cowboy, cowgirl, cowpuncher, disputant, duelist, elevate, enforcer, ennoble, equestrian, equestrienne, exalt, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, gallant, gamecock, gaucho, gladiator, goon, gorilla, graduate, hatchet man, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, horse soldier, horseback rider, horsebacker, horseman, horsewoman, jockey, jouster, kick upstairs, king, knight bachelor, knight banneret, knight baronet, knight-errant, man, militant, mounted policeman, pass, pawn, piece, plug-ugly, postboy, postilion, prefer, promote, puncher, quarreler, queen, raise, rider, rioter, rival, rook, rough, roughrider, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler, squabbler, steeplechaser, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, thug, tilter, tough, trick rider, tussler, up, upgrade, vaquero, wrangler

Etymology
kniht:, from cniht:, cneoht: 'boy, retainer', from  (cf. Dutch knecht: ‘attendant, servant’, German Knecht: ‘lad, slave’), from  ‘to knead’. More at knead.

Noun

 * Albanian: kalorës
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: zaldun
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: рицар
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 骑士, 大俠,  大侠,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: (ippótis)
 * Hebrew: פרש (parash), אביר (abír)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ksatria
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Korean: (騎士)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: سوارا
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: bruņinieks
 * Lithuanian: riteris
 * Macedonian:
 * Maltese: kavallier
 * Norwegian: ridder
 * Norwegian Bokmål:
 * Old French:
 * Old Provençal:
 * Persian: (shahsavâr)
 * Polish:, rycerz
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, витязь
 * Scottish Gaelic: ridire
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: витез
 * Roman: vitez
 * Slovak: rytier
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kabalyero
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: лицар
 * Welsh:


 * Armenian:
 * Basque: zaldun
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 骑士
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Indonesian: ksatria
 * Irish:


 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish: (ancient),  (modern)
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ridire
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: витез
 * Roman: vitez
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: лицар (lýtsar)


 * Translingual: ,
 * Arabic: ,
 * Armenian: ձի (dzi)
 * Basque:
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,  骑士
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: riddari
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: მხედარი
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:


 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: (in Western chess),   (in shogi)
 * Korean: 나이트
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian Bokmål:
 * Persian: (asb)
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: коњ, скакач
 * Roman: konj, skakač
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: кінь (kin’)
 * Urdu:


 * : cniht

Verb

 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: rüütliks lööma
 * Finnish:
 * French: faire chevalier
 * German:


 * Hungarian:
 * Persian: (shovalye kardan)
 * Polish: pasować (na rycerza) (ancient), nadać rangę kawalerską (modern)
 * Portuguese: dar o título de cavaleiro
 * Russian: посвящать в рыцари (posvjaščát’ v rýtsari)
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * 1) knight