Definitions for knights

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knights knight

Spelling: [nahyt]

IPA: /naɪt/

Knights is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 147 anagrams from letters in knights (ghiknst).

Definitions for knights

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. a comedy (424 b.c.) by Aristophanes.

verb (used with object)

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

Origin of knights

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

Examples for knights

All the knights gathered round him to ask what ailed the Duke.

She yelled; and the knights, laughing, took the lout, And thrust him from the gate.

The teasing is so common that is has been accepted as “the standard ginger bullying” by those who knights has encountered.

In the backlash to Reconstruction after the Civil War, the knights of the Ku Klux Klan were born.

But she flitted away, as she had done before from the knights.

As a kid, you'd admired pictures of knights in burnished suits of armor.

“We kind of knew early on that we had hit on something really unique,” knights says.

knights and nobles lie clad in armour with their ladies by their sides.

"It is the ensign of the knights of Calatrava," answered Felton.

Is there more to U.S. involvement overseas than the fairy tale of knights saving fair maidens from dragons?