Meaning

3 senses
  1. The honor bestowed that makes someone a knight.

  2. Honorific formal address to a knighted person. Usually used with the relevant possessive pronoun.

  3. 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.

Origin

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

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

From knight + ship.

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Forms

plural: knightships
Singularknightship
Pluralknightships

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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