knightlet
knightlet noun: a small or petty knight.
Noun
knightlet (plural knightlets)
- A small or petty knight.
- Then follow accounts of many misdeeds of different sinners, and the penalties enforced on them, the Church standing up valiantly against the petty chiefs and knightlets which abounded in Wales, though she was well paid for it.1885, The Red Dragon, volume 8, page 614
- Highborn boys were sent off to another noble household at the age of about seven, to serve strenuously as pages and later as esquires to their lord before they themselves were knighted, looked around for a "lady" and incidentally got married and produced more knightlets, whom they never got to know...1971, Clayton C. Barbeau, Future of the family
- Synonyms:
- knightling
Synonyms of knightlet
Forms of knightlet
| plural | knightlets |
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Origin of knightlet
From knight + -let.
Questions about knightlet
- What does knightlet mean?
- Knightlet means a small or petty knight.
- What part of speech is knightlet?
- Knightlet is a noun.
- What is the plural of knightlet?
- The plural of knightlet is knightlets.
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