Definition of "knight" in 英语

noun

1. (historical) A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.

2. (historical) A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.

3. (by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.

   • King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

4. (law, historical) A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.

5. (modern) A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.

6. (literary) A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.

7. (chess) A chess piece, often in the shape of a horse's head, that is moved two squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.

8. (card games, dated) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.

9. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.

10. (modern) Any mushroom belonging to genus Tricholoma.

11. A species of nymphalid butterfly, Lebadea martha, found in tropical and subtropical Asia.

verb

1. (transitive) To confer knighthood upon.

   • The king knighted the young squire.

2. (chess, transitive) To promote (a pawn) to a knight.