knight

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈnaɪ̯t/|[ˈnaɪ̯t]    美 /ˈnaɪ̯t/|[ˈnaɪ̯t]|/ˈnɑɪ̯t/|[ˈnɑ̟ɪ̯t]|/ˈnɒɪ̯t/|[ˈnɒ̈ɪ̯t]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord. historical
    — Not all knights held fiefs, and it was not unusual for knights to buy themselves freedom from the obligations of the fief, or even to abscond with the arms provided by their lord, becoming a part of the large number of unenfeoffed, wandering knights available for hire […]
  2. A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire. historical
  3. An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages. broadly
    — King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
  4. A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee. historical
  5. A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch. modern
  6. A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest. literary
  7. 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.
    — The knight may move to one of the squares nearest to that on which it stands but not on the same rank, file or diagonal. […] There are two knights, on the squares g1 and e1, and one of them moves to the square f3: either Ngf3 or Nef3, as the case may be.
  8. A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack. dated
  9. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.
  10. Any mushroom belonging to genus Tricholoma. modern
  11. A species of nymphalid butterfly, Lebadea martha, found in tropical and subtropical Asia.
动词 v.
  1. To confer knighthood upon. transitive
    — The king knighted the young squire.
  2. To promote (a pawn) to a knight. transitive

词形变化

knights plural knyght alternative,obsolete knights present,singular,third-person knighting participle,present knighted participle,past knighted past

词汇关系

近义词
dub
下位词
knight banneret banneret
衍生词
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相关词
♘ ♞ paladin baronet
并列词
knight's fee knight service

词源

词源 1
From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (“boy; servant, knight”), from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.
词源 2
From Middle English knighten, kniȝten, from the noun. Cognate with Middle High German knehten.
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