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Knight knight

Spelling: [nahyt]

IPA: /naɪt/

Knight is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in Knight (ghiknt).

Definitions for Knight

noun

1. a mounted soldier serving under a feudal superior in the Middle Ages.
2. (in Europe in the Middle Ages) a man, usually of noble birth, who after an apprenticeship as page and squire was raised to honorable military rank and bound to chivalrous conduct.
3. any person of a rank similar to that of the medieval knight.
4. a man upon whom the nonhereditary dignity of knighthood is conferred by a sovereign because of personal merit or for services rendered to the country. In Great Britain he holds the rank next below that of a baronet, and the title Sir is prefixed to the Christian name, as in Sir John Smith.
5. a member of any order or association that designates its members as knights.
6. Chess. a piece shaped like a horse's head, moved one square vertically and then two squares horizontally or one square horizontally and two squares vertically.
7. Nautical. a short vertical timber having on its head a sheave through which running rigging is rove. any other fitting or erection bearing such a sheave.
8. Eric, 1897–1943, U.S. novelist, born in England.
9. Frank Hyneman [hahy-nuh-muh n] /ˈhaɪ nə mən/ (Show IPA), 1885–1972, U.S. economist.

verb (used with object)

1. to dub or make (a man) a knight.

Origin of Knight

before 900; Middle English; Old English cniht boy, manservant; cognate with German, Dutch knecht servant

Examples for Knight

The master-shipman looked at the knight with a troubled face.

"Keep them in play, Aylward, with ten of your men," the knight continued.

So she lies to the knight, telling him Madalena is sorry and wants him back.

The knight looked at him with a face which struck the smile from his lips.

The knight wears the collar of SS, and his arms are on his surcoat.

Over dinner, the knight had mentioned that Scalise had spoken before the EURO event.

knight and Farrell were both fired from the New Orleans Police Department before they gravitated to Duke.

Never a knight's lady shall be better betrimmed and betrinketed.

Scalise was a state representative old enough to remember the notoriety of Farrell and knight from years before.

“Poor Steve Scalise is getting a bad rap,” knight, a long-time aide to former KKK leader David Duke, told The Daily Beast.