Usually means: Title granted for honorable service.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word knighthood:

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  1. knighthood: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. knighthood: Merriam-Webster
  3. knighthood: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. knighthood: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. knighthood: Collins English Dictionary
  6. knighthood: Vocabulary.com
  7. Knighthood, knighthood: Wordnik
  8. knighthood: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. knighthood: Wiktionary
  10. knighthood: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. knighthood: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. knighthood: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Knighthood, knighthood: Dictionary.com
  14. knighthood: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Knighthood (UK), Knighthood: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Knighthood: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. knighthood: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. knighthood: Rhymezone
  19. knighthood: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. knighthood: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. knighthood: FreeDictionary.org
  22. knighthood: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. knighthood: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. knighthood: Legal dictionary

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  1. knighthood: Encyclopedia

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  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)

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▸ noun:  An honour whereby one is made into a knight, and one can thereafter be called "Sir".
▸ noun:  The quality of being a knight.
▸ noun:  The knights collectively, the body of knights.

Similar:
knightship, knight, order of knighthood, knight service, knight-service, knightdom, military order, chevalier, squire, knightage, more...

Opposite:
peasant, commoner, serf

Phrases:
hereditary knighthood, orders of knighthood, order of knighthood, grant knighthood to, confers knighthood on, more...

Adjectives:
true, medieval, new, honorary, british, feudal, spiritual, french, perfect, religious, hereditary

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Similar:
knightship, knight, order of knighthood, knight service, knight-service, knightdom, military order, chevalier, squire, knightage, more...

Opposite:
peasant, commoner, serf

Phrases:
hereditary knighthood, orders of knighthood, order of knighthood, grant knighthood to, confers knighthood on, more...

Adjectives:
true, medieval, new, honorary, british, feudal, spiritual, french, perfect, religious, hereditary

Colors:
    silver,     gold,     black,     white,     red, more...



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