Usually means: Granted knighthood by a monarch.
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  1. knighted: Merriam-Webster
  2. knighted: Collins English Dictionary
  3. knighted: Vocabulary.com
  4. Knighted, knighted: Wordnik
  5. knighted: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. knighted: Wiktionary
  7. Knighted, knighted: Dictionary.com
  8. knighted: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Knighted: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Knighted: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Knighted: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. knighted: FreeDictionary.org
  13. knighted: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. knighted: Encyclopedia

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  1. knighted: Idioms

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  1. Knighted, knighted: Urban Dictionary

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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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