knight
verb/naɪt/
/naɪt/
[usually passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they knight | /naɪt/ /naɪt/ |
| he / she / it knights | /naɪts/ /naɪts/ |
| past simple knighted | /ˈnaɪtɪd/ /ˈnaɪtɪd/ |
| past participle knighted | /ˈnaɪtɪd/ /ˈnaɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form knighting | /ˈnaɪtɪŋ/ /ˈnaɪtɪŋ/ |
- to give somebody the rank and title of a knight
- be knighted (by somebody) He was knighted by the King for his services to industry.
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.
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