OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 1471

knight

/naɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
caballera • caballero • équite
An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
There are two tombs, each bearing effigies of a knight and his lady. One is 14th century, the other 15th century. The earlier knight wears chain mail and his lady has long, flowing…
caballera • caballero • équite
A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
caballo
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.
The knight may move to one of the squares nearest to that on which it stands but not on the same rank, file or diagonal. […] There are two knights, on the squares g1 and e1, and on…
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 1472

knight

/naɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
acaballar
To confer knighthood upon.
Highborn boys were sent off to another noble household at the age of about seven, to serve strenuously as pages and later as esquires to their lord before they themselves were knig…
The king knighted the young squire.
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