Usually means: Medieval warrior on horseback, armored.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. knight: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. knight: Merriam-Webster
  3. knight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. knight: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. knight: Collins English Dictionary
  6. knight: Vocabulary.com
  7. Knight, knight: Wordnik
  8. knight: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Knight, knight: Wiktionary
  10. knight: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. knight: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. knight: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. knight: Dictionary.com
  14. knight: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. knight: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Knight (DC Comics), Knight (Dungeons & Dragons), Knight (chess), Knight (disambiguation), Knight (playing card), Knight (surname), Knight, The Knight (The Canterbury Tales), The Knight (novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Knight: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. knight: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. knight: Rhymezone
  20. knight: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. knight: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Knight: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. knight: FreeDictionary.org
  24. knight: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. knight: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. knight: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. KNIGHT: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knight: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  4. knight: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. knight: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. knight: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Knight: Chess Dictionary
  2. Knight: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See knighted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Knight)

noun:  (historical) A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
noun:  (historical) A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
noun:  (by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
noun:  (law, historical) A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.
noun:  (modern) A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
noun:  (literary) A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (card games, dated) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
noun:  (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.
noun:  (modern) Any mushroom belonging to genus Tricholoma.
verb:  (transitive) To confer knighthood upon.
verb:  (chess, transitive) To promote (a pawn) to a knight.
noun:  An English surname originating as an occupation for someone who was a mounted soldier.
noun:  A town in Iron County, Wisconsin, United States.
noun:  A settlement on Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.

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