knight bachelor

1. 1.

   a knight of the lowest order; could display only a pennon

   Synonymsbachelor-at-armsbachelor

   Broaderknight

Questions about knight bachelor

What does knight bachelor mean?

knight bachelor means "a knight of the lowest order; could display only a pennon".

What is another word for knight bachelor?

Close synonyms include bachelor-at-arms, bachelor. 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 bachelor a common word?

knight bachelor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.