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knightships

knightships is the plural of knightship.

Meaning of knightship

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.

Questions about knightships

What is knightships the plural of?
Knightships is the plural of knightship.

Words near knightships in the dictionary

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

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