Definition of knight

"knight" in the noun sense

1. knight

originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit

2. knight, horse

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

"knight" in the verb sense

1. knight, dub

raise (someone) to knighthood

"The Beatles were knighted"

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Quotations for knight

A knight of good repute. [ Motto ]

Make thee my knight? my knights are sworn to vows
Of utter hardihood, utter gentleness,
And, loving, utter faithfulness in love,
And uttermost obedience to the king. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

A scabbed horse is good enough for a scabbed knight. [ Proverb ]

It is as hard a thing to please a knave as a knight. [ Proverb ]

But now so wise and wary was the knight
By trial of his former harms and cares,
That he descry'd and shunned still his slight;
The fish, that once was caught, new bait will hardly bite. [ Spenser ]

One who lives by persevering fraud (a knight of industry). [ French ]

A true knight is fuller of gay bravery in the midst than in the beginning of danger. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

God created out of the clay the knight and his squire. A higher sense ennobles even a humble race. [ Bürger ]

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following openly-declared purposes, and preaching candidly-beloved and trusted creeds. [ John Ruskin ]

Honor is not a virtue in itself, it is the mail behind which the virtues fight more securely. A man without honor is as maimed in his equipment as an accoutred knight without helmet. Honor is not simply truthfulness; it is truthfulness sparkling with the fire of a suspective personality. It is something more than an ornament even to the loftiest. [ George H. Calvert ]

knight in Scrabble®

The word knight is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters knight:

KNIGHT
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knight in Words With Friends™

The word knight is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters knight:

KNIGHT
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Words within the letters of knight

2 letter words in knight (3 words)

3 letter words in knight (7 words)

4 letter words in knight (6 words)

5 letter words in knight (3 words)

6 letter words in knight (1 word)

knight + 1 blank (1 word)

Word Growth involving knight

Shorter words in knight

nigh night

Longer words containing knight

beknight beknighted

beknight beknighting

beknight beknights

knightage knightages

knighted beknighted

knighted unknighted

knightess knightesses

knighthead knightheads

knighthood knighthoods

knighting beknighting

knighting unknighting

knightless

knightlier

knightliest

knightlihood

knightlike unknightlike

knightliness unknightliness

knightly unknightly

knights beknights

knights unknights

knights weeknights

unknight unknighted

unknight unknighting

unknight unknightlike

unknight unknightliness

unknight unknightly

unknight unknights

weeknight weeknights