knight

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n. 骑士, 爵士 vt. 授以爵位

发音

US /naɪt/

词形变化

knights 复数 knights knighted knighteth knighting knights 三单 knighting 现在分词 knighted 过去式 knighted 过去分词

别名

kt. Kt knyght

教材释义与例句

名词

骑士,武士;爵士

动词

授以爵位

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.

    历史
  2. 2.

    A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.

    历史
  3. 3.

    An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.

    骑士

    大侠

    爵士

    引申义

    King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

  4. 4.

    A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.

    历史 法律
  5. 5.

    A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.

    骑士

  6. 6.

    A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.

    文学
  7. 7.

    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.

    骑士

    游戏
  8. 8.

    A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.

    过时 游戏
  9. 9.

    Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.

    生物 动物学
  10. 10.

    Any mushroom belonging to genus Tricholoma.

  11. 11.

    A species of nymphalid butterfly, Lebadea martha, found in tropical and subtropical Asia.

v.
  1. 1.

    To confer knighthood upon.

    及物

    The king knighted the young squire.

  2. 2.

    To promote (a pawn) to a knight.

    及物 游戏

词汇关系

相关短语

词源

From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (“boy; servant, knight”), from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.

来源:wiktionary