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knighthood

knighthood noun: an honour whereby one is made into a knight, and whereafter one is entitled to be called Sir.

Noun

knighthood (countable and uncountable, plural knighthoods)

  1. An honour whereby one is made into a knight, and whereafter one is entitled to be called Sir.
    • the knighthood of Sir [So-and-So]
    • He's got an OBE and MBE, and his recent work should entitle him to a knighthood.
  2. The quality of being a knight.
  3. The knights collectively, the body of knights.

knighthood meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Kannada and Arabic

knighthood in Tamil

வீரத்திருத்தகை பட்டம், ஆண்டகை பட்டம், வீரத்திருத்தகை அமைப்பு

knighthood in Urdu

بہادر, سورما لوگ, بہادری, سرداری

knighthood in Kannada

ನೈಟ್ ಬಿರುದು, ನೈಟ್ ಪದವಿ

knighthood in Arabic

quality of being a knight
فروسية

Examples of knighthood in a sentence

  • They rushed to congratulate Sir John Smith on his knighthood.
  • He received his knighthood at the opening of Immingham Dock in 1912.1953 August, “Sir Sam Fay”, in Railway Magazine, page 506:

Forms of knighthood

pluralknighthoods

Plural of knighthood: knighthoods

Origin of knighthood

From Middle English knyghthode, knyȝthod, from Old English cnihthād, from Proto-West Germanic *knehtahaidu, equivalent to knight + -hood. Cognate with Dutch knechtheid, dialectal German Knechtheit.

Words formed from knighthood

Phrases with knighthood

Questions about knighthood

What does knighthood mean?
Knighthood means an honour whereby one is made into a knight, and whereafter one is entitled to be called Sir.
What is knighthood in Tamil?
Knighthood in Tamil is வீரத்திருத்தகை பட்டம், ஆண்டகை பட்டம், வீரத்திருத்தகை அமைப்பு. See Knighthood meaning in Tamil.
How do you use knighthood in a sentence?
They rushed to congratulate Sir John Smith on his knighthood.
What part of speech is knighthood?
Knighthood is a noun.
What is the plural of knighthood?
The plural of knighthood is knighthoods.

Words near knighthood in the dictionary

  1. knighteth
  2. knightful
  3. knightfully
  4. knighthead
  5. knightheads
  6. knighthood
  7. knighthoods
  8. Knightian
  9. Knightian uncertainties
  10. Knightian uncertainty
  11. Knightie

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: knighthood (page history and authors); knighthood (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); knighthood (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); knighthood (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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