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(historical) A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
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(historical) 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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(law, historical) A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.
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(modern) A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
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(literary) A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
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(chess) 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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(card games, dated) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
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(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.
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(modern) Any mushroom belonging to genus Tricholoma.
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A species of nymphalid butterfly, Lebadea martha, found in tropical and subtropical Asia.