Usually means: Noble warriors on horseback, chivalrous.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word knight's:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. knights: Merriam-Webster
  2. knights: Collins English Dictionary
  3. knights: Vocabulary.com
  4. Knight''s, Knight's, Knights, Knights, knight's, knights, knights: Wordnik
  5. knights: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. knights: Wiktionary
  7. Knights (cricket team), Knights (disambiguation), Knights (film), Knights (video game), Knights, The Knights (orchestra), The Knights: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Knights: Rhymezone
  9. Knights: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  10. knights: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. knights, the knights: Dictionary.com
  12. knights: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knights: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knights: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Knights, The Knights: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See knight 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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