Word Finder - knight

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A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.

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

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(by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.

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King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

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

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

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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.

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A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.

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Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.

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(modern) A generic name for various mushrooms belonging to the fungal order gilled mushrooms; scientific name Tricholoma.

You were my knight in shining armor.

The king made him a knight and gave him a pension.

After he saved her life, Alex was her knight in shining armor.

Guy was a brave if not a particularly able knight; and his instant attack on Acre after his release by Saladin shows that he had the sentiment de ses devoirs.

A knight of the Garter, he was in 1621 created earl marshal for life, and revived the jurisdiction belonging to the office.

In 1403 the Spanish king sent a knight of Madrid, Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo, to the distant court of Timur, at Samarkand.

In 1639 he was made a knight.

He also appeared on a 1984 episode of Knight Rider.

The knight showed reverence to the king by bowing before him.

Sandra Knight plays his opposite and Boris Karloff appears as the Baron.

It is further stated that his daughter married a Roman knight.

This is Knight's third marriage and Curry's first.

Knight-The knight is the only piece that can jump other pieces.

I'll be her knight in shining armor, he said.

The sequel, The Dark Knight, is set for release on July 18, 2008.

The show became syndicated in 2008 and was hosted by Christopher Knight.

In 1869 he was created a Knight of the Garter.

Munoz was created duke of Riansares and made a knight of the Golden Fleece.

There was no knight of the shire in any Spanish Cortes.

The tunica was precisely like the Greek chiton; that of the senator had two broad stripes of purple (latus clavus) down the centre, that of the knight two narrow stripes (angustus clavus).

Still, Alex was her knight in shining armor.

Yes I was the only gallant knight of our mob.

The second kingdom had 20 knights, and each knight had 10 squires.

He was made a knight commander of the order of the Saviour by the king of Greece, and also received an order from the prince of Montenegro.

A knights suit of armor had to be tailor-made to fit the knight exactly.

The knight showedreverenceto the king by bowing before him.

Knight Furniture has been in business for more than four decades.

The Dark Knight - Set to be released in 2008.

Knight stopped the SUV, Isaac jumped out in an attempt to run away from Knight (who had already punched her while in the vehicle).

Ledger's acting was indeed at its finest in The Dark Knight.

The more important a knight was, the finer the armor.

His successor Maharao Pragmalji in recognition of his excellent administration was in 1871 honoured with the title of knight grand commander of the Star of India.

Ideally regarded, feudalism covered Europe with a network of these fiefs, rising in graded ranks one above the other from the smallest, the knight's fee, at the bottom, to the king at the top, who was the supreme landowner, or who held the kingdom from God.

A knight might hold directly of the king, a count of a viscount, a bishop of an abbot, or the king himself of one of his own vassals, or even of a vassal's vassal, and in return his vassal's vassal might hold another fief directly of him.

He is at once the gigantic eater of Turpin, the huge warrior eight feet high, who could lift the armed knight standing on his open hand to a level with his head, the crusading conqueror of Jerusalem in days before the crusades, and yet with all this the temperate drinker and admirer of St Augustine, as his character had filtered down through various channels from the historical pages of Einhard.

He slays a foe of Arthur's, the Red Knight, who has insulted the king, and challenged the knights of the court, who, for some mysterious reason, are unable to respond to the challenge.

The baronial seal bears the armed and mounted knight.

For cold and late situations, Thomas Andrew Knight recommended the encouragement of spurs on the young wood, as such spurs, when close to the wall, generate the best organized and most vigorous blossoms, and generally ensure a crop of fruit.

A Knight Harbinger was an officer in the royal household till 1846.

Among less important, but still conspicuous, figures may be mentioned Kay (the Kai of the Mabinogion), Arthur's foster-brother and sensechal, the type of the bluff and boastful warrior, and Bedivere (Bedwyr), the type of brave knight and faithful retainer, who alone is with Arthur at his passing, and afterwards becomes " a hermit and a holy man."

He is the ideal yeoman as Arthur is the ideal knight.

At one time a captain of the coast-guard, at another the protege of Benavente, viceroy of Naples, who appointed him governor of Scigliano, patronized by Osuna and Olivares, Castro was nominated a knight of the order of Santiago in 1623.

Dressing himself in the armour of the slain knight, which he has great difficulty in handling and eventually puts on over his peasant's garb, he sets out on a series of adventures which differ greatly in the various versions, but the outcome of which is that he becomes a skilful and valiant knight and regains the heritage of his father.

Here the hero is nephew to Arthur on the mother's side, and his father, of the same name as himself, is a valiant knight of the court.

A noticeable feature of the story is the uncertainty as to the hero's parentage; the mother is always a lady of rank, a queen in her own right, or sister of kings (as a rule of the Grail kings); but the father's rank varies, he is never a king, more often merely a valiant knight, and in no instance does he appear to be of equal rank with his wife.

In the interior is the tomb of the German king Gunther of Schwarzburg, who died in Frankfort in 1349, and that of Rudolph, the last knight of Sachsenhausen, who died in 1371.

He was elected an associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1876, and a full member in 1880; an associate of the Royal Academy in 1885, and an academician in 1893; and at Paris, in 1887, where he exhibited "The Newhaven Packet" and "The Clearness after Rain," he received a grand prix and was made a knight of the Legion of Honour.

The specially antiquarian, biographical and historical features, which make this magazine so valuable a store-house for information for the period it covers, were dropped in 1868, when an " entirely new series," a miscellany of light literature was successively edited by Gowing, Joseph Hatton and Joseph Knight.

Knight secured the best authors and artists of the day to write for and illustrate his magazine, which, though at first a commercial success, may have had the reason of its subsequent discontinuance in its literary excellence.

It came to an end in 1845 and was succeeded by Knight's Penny Magazine (1845), which was stopped after six monthly parts.