knight

1. 1.

   raise (someone) to knighthood

   “The Beatles were knighted”

   Synonymsdub

   Broaderennoble

Other forms of knight

plural

knights·

past tense

knighted·

present participle

knighting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about knight

What does knight mean?

knight means "originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in knight?

knight has 1 syllable: knight. In IPA it is /ˈnaɪt/.

What is another word for knight?

Close synonyms include horse, dub. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is knight a common word?

knight is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with knight?

19 words rhyme with knight. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.