Dictionary Entry
knight
knight is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A young servant or follower; a military attendant. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 15 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A young servant or follower; a military attendant.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
A champion; a partisan; a lover.
- 5noun
A piece used in the game of chess, usually bearing a horse's head.
- 6noun
A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
- 7transitive 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 ---.
- 8noun
a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
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- 9noun
originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit
- 10verb
raise (someone) to knighthood
"The Beatles were knighted"
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