英语词汇“knight”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	knight
释义	knight —knightless, adj. /nuyt/, n. 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. Naut. a. a short vertical timber having on its head a sheave through which running rigging is rove. b. any other fitting or erection bearing such a sheave. v.t. 8. to dub or make (a man) a knight. [bef. 900; ME; OE cniht boy, manservant; c. G, D knecht servant]
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