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US
/ˈnaɪt/
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[ UK /nˈaɪt/ ]
[ UK /nˈaɪt/ ]
VERB
-
raise (someone) to knighthood
The Beatles were knighted
NOUN
- a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
- originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit
How To Use knight In A Sentence
- Her job was to work the bar on weeknights, except Thursday, and Sunday night, and on Monday to Friday she had to work the golf course.
- The unclaimed jewellery was part of the estimated ￡60m haul taken from the Knightsbridge Security deposit box robbery in 1987.
- One after another the _antichi spiriti dolenti_ rise up and salute the new edifice: Nimrod and the Assyrians, Anglo-Saxon ealdormen and Norman knights templars, and citizens of ancient Bristol. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
- The list also includes Her Majesty The Queen, eight more Dukes, five Marquesses, thirteen Earls, five Viscounts, twenty-three Lords, seven Baronets, fifty-four Knights, two Dames and six Ladies.
- An. There's a testrill of me too: if one knight giue a Twelfth Night (1623 First Folio Edition)
- I see his sensibility as basically that of an earlier age: he is a chivalric knight devoted to his lady; this devotion is like that of a medieval Christian who lives in the world yet profoundly venerates the Virgin Mary. Sena Jeter Naslund - An interview with author
- One of the region's top teachers was awarded a knighthood in recognition of his services to education.
- So my idea is that we need these shining knights from the castle to journey forth on a quest.
- England's wars, waged successfully by humble bowmen as well as knights and noblemen, created among all ranks a self-confidence that warmed English hearts.
- And 'offloaded' him into a Master in anticipation of the great dark knight? The Tao Of Sith
