knights
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/naɪts/
English
Definitions
noun
- A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
- A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
- (by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.“King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table”
- (modern) A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
verb
- To confer knighthood upon.“The king knighted the young squire.”
- To promote (a pawn) to a knight.
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