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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▸ 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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