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knightship

knightship noun: the honor bestowed that makes someone a knight.

Noun (1)

knightship (plural knightships)

  1. The honor bestowed that makes someone a knight.
    • No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,--not though it be of the Garter,--confers so fair an honour.1864-1865, Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?
    Synonyms:
    knighthood
  2. Honorific formal address to a knighted person. Usually used with the relevant possessive pronoun.
    • Fare your knightship well.1899, S. R. Crockett, The Black Douglas

Noun (2)

knightship (plural knightships)

  1. A spaceship, in a cellular automaton, which moves knightwise (i.e., moving two spaces along the x-axis for every space it moves along the y-axis [or vice versa], in the manner of a chess knight); a spaceship which moves with slope 2; a (2,1) spaceship.

Synonyms of knightship

Forms of knightship

pluralknightships

Origin of knightship

Inherited from Middle English knyghtschipe; by surface analysis, knight + ship.

From knight + ship.

Questions about knightship

What does knightship mean?
Knightship means the honor bestowed that makes someone a knight.
What part of speech is knightship?
Knightship is a noun.
What is the plural of knightship?
The plural of knightship is knightships.

Words near knightship in the dictionary

  1. knights' fees
  2. knights-errant
  3. knights-erratic
  4. Knightsbridge
  5. Knightsen
  6. knightship
  7. knightships
  8. Knightswood
  9. Knightwick
  10. knightwise
  11. Knik

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