- (in the Middle Ages) a man of high social rank who had a duty to fight for his king. Knights are often shown in pictures riding horses and wearing armour.
- tales of medieval knights errant, wandering in search of chivalrous adventures
Homophones knight | nightknight nightTopics Historyb2/naɪt//naɪt/- knight noun
- The story tells of a knight who leaves a castle to fight a dragon.
- night noun
- At night you can see thousands of stars.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- medieval
- chivalrous
- noble
- …
- a knight errant
- a knight in armour/armor
- a knight in shining armour/armor
- …
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- (in the UK) a man who has been given a special honour by the king or queen and has the title Sir before his name compare baronetTopics People in societyb2
- a piece used in the game of chess that is like a horse’s head in shapeTopics Games and toysc2More Like This Silent lettersSilent letters
Word OriginOld English cniht ‘boy, youth, servant’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch knecht and German Knecht. Sense (2) dates from the mid 16th cent.
Idioms
See knight in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarya knight in shining armour
- (usually humorous) a man who saves somebody, especially a woman, from a dangerous situation
- She's still waiting for a knight in shining armour to come and rescue her.
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