Meaning

11 senses
  1. (historical)A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.

  2. (historical)A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.

  3. (broadly)An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.

    King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

    Ritter

    ры́царьrýcarʹ, ви́тязьvítjazʹ, богаты́рьbogatýrʹ

    ли́царlýcar, ри́царrýcar, ви́тязьvýtjazʹ

  4. (historical)A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.

  5. (modern)A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.

    Ritter

    ры́царьrýcarʹ

    ли́царlýcar

  6. (literary)A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.

  7. A chess piece, often in the shape of a horse's head, that is moved two squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.

    Springer, Pferd, Ross

    коньkonʹ

    кіньkinʹ

    a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)

  8. (dated)A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.

  9. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.

  10. (modern)Any mushroom belonging to genus Tricholoma.

  11. A species of nymphalid butterfly, Lebadea martha, found in tropical and subtropical Asia.

Examples

118 sentences
  1. Look at that knight on the horse.

    Подивись-но на цього лицаря на коні.

    deSehen Sie sich den Ritter auf dem Pferd an!

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  2. Tom came to save Mary like a knight in shining armor.

    ruТом пришёл спасать Мэри, словно рыцарь в сияющих доспехах.

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  3. Tom should be knighted.

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  4. The queen knighted Tom.

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  5. Tom is a knight.

    Том — лицар.

    ruТом - рыцарь.

    deTom ist Ritter.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
warrior, especially of the Middle Ages:
chess piece:
Русский
By meaning 2
warrior, especially of the Middle Ages:
chess piece:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
warrior, especially of the Middle Ages:
chess piece:

Origin

From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (“boy; servant, knight”)

From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (“boy; servant, knight”), from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.

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