knights
/naɪts/
knights is the plural of knight.
knights is the third-person singular simple present indicative of knight.
Meaning of knight
Noun
knight (plural knights)
- A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
- 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 […]2001, Michael S. Drake, Problematics of Military Power: Government, Discipline and the Subject of Violence, →ISBN, page 97
- A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
- An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
- King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
- A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.
- A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
- A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
Proper noun capitalized: Knights
Knights
- A surname.
- A former unincorporated community in Franklin County, Kentucky, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Jasper County, Missouri, United States.
Phrases with knights
- gray knights
- grey knights
- Jedi Knights
- Knights Hill
- ashen knights
- black knights
- burnt knights
- dusky knights
- white knights
- belted knights
- carpet knights
- knights errant
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- silver knights
- yellow knights
- Knights Landing
- knights marshal
- Knights Templar
- imperial knights
- Knights Bachelor
- knights caligate
- Knights of Malta
- Knights Templars
- Teutonic Knights
- Four Knights Game
- knights bannerets
- Knights Batchelor
- Knights of Rhodes
- Knights of Pythias
- knights of the pen
- Tolleshunt Knights
- Knights Hospitaller
- Knights of Columbus
- knights of industry
- knights of the post
- knights of the road
- knights of the whip
- Two Knights Defence
- Two Knights Defense
- Knights Hospitallers
- knights of the shire
- knights of the hammer
- knights of the needle
- knights of the pestle
- knights of the shears
- knights of the spigot
- knights of the thimble
- poor knights of Windsor
- knights in shining armor
- knights in shining armour
- knights of the green baize
- knights of the green cloth
- Knights of the Golden Circle
Words that rhyme with knights
Questions about knights
- What does knights mean?
- Knights means a surname.
- What is knights the plural of?
- Knights is the plural of knight.
- What part of speech is knights?
- Knights is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce knights?
- Knights is pronounced /naɪts/.
Words near knights in the dictionary
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