ALL meanings of knighted
knight
K k - noun knighted Simple past tense and past participle of knight. 1
- noun knighted a mounted soldier serving under a feudal superior in the Middle Ages. 1
- noun knighted (in Europe in the Middle Ages) a man, usually of noble birth, who after an apprenticeship as page and squire was raised to honorable military rank and bound to chivalrous conduct. 1
- noun knighted any person of a rank similar to that of the medieval knight. 1
- noun knighted a man upon whom the nonhereditary dignity of knighthood is conferred by a sovereign because of personal merit or for services rendered to the country. In Great Britain he holds the rank next below that of a baronet, and the title Sir is prefixed to the Christian name, as in Sir John Smith. 1
- noun knighted a member of any order or association that designates its members as knights. 1
- noun knighted Chess. a piece shaped like a horse's head, moved one square vertically and then two squares horizontally or one square horizontally and two squares vertically. 1
- noun knighted Nautical. a short vertical timber having on its head a sheave through which running rigging is rove. any other fitting or erection bearing such a sheave. 1
- verb with object knighted to dub or make (a man) a knight. 1