Synonyms of the word knight


KNIGHTCHESSMAN - DUB - ENNOBLE - ENTITLE - GENTLE - HORSE

knight

  • n. A warrior, especially of the Middle Ages.
  • n. A young servant or follower; a military attendant.
  • n. Nowadays, a person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
  • n. (chess) A chess piece, often in the shape of a horse's head, that is moved two squares in one direction…
  • n. (card games, dated) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
  • v. (transitive) To confer knighthood upon.
  • v. (chess, transitive) To promote (a pawn) to a knight.

chessman

  • n. (chess) A chess piece.

dub

  • v. (transitive) (now historical) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap…
  • v. (transitive) To name, to entitle, to call.
  • v. (transitive) To deem.
  • v. To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
  • v. (heading) To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.
  • v. To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
  • v. To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
  • v. To do something badly.
  • v. In golf, to execute a shot poorly.
  • n. (rare) A blow, thrust, or poke.
  • n. (now historical) (slang) An unskillful, awkard person.
  • v. To add sound to film or change audio on film.
  • v. To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
  • v. To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation.
  • v. To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.
  • n. (music) A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
  • n. (music) A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
  • n. (music) A growing trend of music from 2009 to current in which bass distortion is synced off timing to…
  • n. (slang) A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.
  • n. (Britain, dialect) A pool or puddle.
  • n. (slang) A twenty dollar sack of marijuana.
  • n. (slang) A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.
  • v. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To open or close.
  • n. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) A lock.
  • n. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) A key, especially a master key; a lockpick.

ennoble

  • v. To bestow with nobility, honour or grace.
  • v. To perform on a fabric the industrial processes of dry-cleaning, printing and embossing, and sizing and…

entitle

  • v. give a title to.
  • v. dignify by an honorary designation.
  • v. give power, authority (to do something).
  • v. give rightful ownership.
  • v. give a title to a book, film, play, etc.

gentle

  • adj. Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.
  • adj. Soft and mild rather than hard or severe.
  • adj. Docile and easily managed.
  • adj. Gradual rather than steep or sudden.
  • adj. Polite and respectful rather than rude.
  • adj. (archaic) Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.
  • v. (intransitive) to become gentle.
  • v. (transitive) to ennoble.
  • v. (transitive, animal husbandry) to break; to tame; to domesticate.
  • v. (transitive) To soothe; to calm.
  • n. (archaic) A person of high birth.
  • n. (archaic) A maggot used as bait by anglers.
  • n. A trained falcon, or falcon-gentil.

horse

  • n. Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
  • n. Equipment with legs.
  • n. (nautical) Type of equipment.
  • n. (mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course…
  • n. (slang) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
  • n. (US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss…
  • n. (dated, slang, among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
  • n. (dated, slang, among students) horseplay; tomfoolery.
  • v. (intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".).
  • v. (transitive) To provide with a horse.
  • v. (obsolete) To get on horseback.
  • v. To sit astride of; to bestride.
  • v. (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
  • v. To take or carry on the back.
  • v. To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such…
  • n. (uncountable, slang, dated) Heroin (drug).

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