Definitions for knight-errant

knight-errant knight-er·rant

Spelling: [nahyt-er-uh nt]
IPA: /ˈnaɪtˈɛr ənt/

Knight-Errant is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 698 anagrams from letters in knight-errant (-aeghiknnrrtt).

Definitions for knight-errant

noun

  1. a wandering knight; a knight who traveled widely in search of adventures, to exhibit military skill, to engage in chivalric deeds, etc.

Origin of knight-errant

Middle English word dating back to 1300-50

Examples for knight-errant

And above all I pray you, Nigel, none of your knight-errant ways.

"You look in this moonlight pale and melancholy as a knight-errant," she said, playfully.

You shall be rewarded for your constancy at last, dear knight-errant.

"I find that I get along much better in the world," asserted the knight-errant.

The Wickliffe boyis a knight-errant born out of time, she said.

But you wanted to be a knight-errant, and, during that time, a handsome fellow.

As I live his horse is a mule—what a pity it was not some knight-errant!

Legs and wings vanish before them like a dragon's before a knight-errant.

The lady of the knight-errant might be one to whom he had never spoken.

And in this knight-errant it seemed to her that she had got it.

Word Value for knight-errant
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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