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Noun knight has 2 senses
  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
    --1 is a kind of     male aristocrat
    --1 has particulars:
     carpet knight; knight bachelor, bachelor-at-arms, bachelor; knight banneret, knight of the square flag, banneret; Knight of the Round Table; knight-errant; Knight Templar, Templar; Geraint, Sir Geraint
    Derived form: verb knight1
  2. knight, horse - a chessman in the shape of a horse's head; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
    --2 is a kind of chessman, chess piece
,Verb knight has 1 sense
  1. knight, dub - raise (someone) to knighthood; "The Beatles were knighted"
    --1 is one way to ennoble, gentle, entitle
    Derived form: noun knight1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
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