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KNIGHTS
- KNIGHT, to make a knight (a medieval gentleman-soldier) of [v]
- (in the Middle Ages) A man who served his sovereign or lord as a mounted soldier in armor
- (in the Middle Ages) A man raised by a sovereign to honorable military rank after service as a page and squire
- A man devoted to the service of a woman or a cause
- (in ancient Rome) A member of the class of equites
- (in ancient Greece) A citizen of the second class in Athens
- A chess piece, typically with its top shaped like a horse's head, that moves by jumping to the opposite corner of a rectangle two squares by three
- KNIGHT, to confer the title of knight upon [v]