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How to pronounce “knight”
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Pronunciation guide for knight
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of knight with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Ben Dunlap: The life-long learner 19 minutes
As the medieval knight Antonius Block returns from the wild goose chase
- Definition summary
- (historical) A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce knight
Ben Dunlap: The life-long learner 19 minutes
As the medieval knight Antonius Block returns from the wild goose chase
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “knight”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (historical) A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
- (historical) A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
- (by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
- (law, historical) A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.
- (modern) A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
- (literary) A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
- (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.
- (card games, dated) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.
- (modern) Any mushroom belonging to genus Tricholoma.
- A species of nymphalid butterfly, Lebadea martha, found in tropical and subtropical Asia.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To confer knighthood upon.
- (chess, transitive) To promote (a pawn) to a knight.
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