(n.) A young servant or follower; a military attendant.
(n.) In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life.
(n.) One on whom knighthood, a dignity next below that of baronet, is conferred by the sovereign, entitling him to be addressed as Sir; as, Sir John.
(n.) A champion; a partisan; a lover.
(n.) A piece used in the game of chess, usually bearing a horse's head.
(n.) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
(v. t.) To dub or create (one) a knight; -- done in England by the sovereign only, who taps the kneeling candidate with a sword, saying: Rise, Sir ---.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
(2) The greatest stars who emerged from the early talent shows – Frank Sinatra, Gladys Knight, Tony Bennett – were artists with long careers.
(3) When she died in 1994, Hopkins-Thomas and his mother – Jessie’s niece – were gifted the masses of drawings and poems Knight had collected over the years.
(4) Or perhaps it was just because I was a little kid and more interested in them Weetabix skinheads, Roland Rat and Knight Rider.
(5) Peter Knights of WildAid, a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in San Francisco, observed that people who argue against the destruction of ivory stockpiles think that having a legal supply is the answer to the poaching problem.
(6) He was later knighted for services to community relations.)
(7) His previous strokes of luck include being appointed chief executive of the Olympic Delivery Authority, the highest-paid quango boss in the UK, and being knighted for "services to regeneration" despite not being a Time Lord.
(8) Alfred was previously portrayed by Michael Caine in Christopher Nolan 's Dark Knight trilogy and the late Michael Gough in the earlier Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher movies.
(9) The first, or maybe, occurrence of the word "melancholia" is found in a French mediaeval book "Knight Yvain" (12th century).
(10) "If viewers think something is false or weird, that's when they reject it," says Gary Knight, commercial content director at ITV.
(11) Shopkeepers said they were afraid to open after gunmen believed to be working for the Knights Templar cartel threw firebombs at several of the city's businesses and city hall over the weekend.
(12) Talking of Batman, what about those rumours that he's been spotted on the set of Christopher Nolan's current movie, The Dark Knight Rises?
(13) If there is justice for Mark some of this sadness will end.” The family’s solicitor, Cyrilia Davies Knight, from Birnberg Peirce solicitors, said: “There are serious questions about whether this highly trained police officer, who shot Mark in broad daylight from an unobstructed view a few metres away from him, made a mistake that was reasonable and lawful.” She added: “A death of this kind is the cause of uniquely intense public concern as demonstrated by the disturbances after Mark’s death.
(14) In 1980, Knight and Griffen developed the "double-staple" technique, using a circular stapler to transect a linear rectal staple line.
(15) The original omitted Buddhism from a list of religions with more followers in England and Wales than the number of people who described themselves as Jedi Knights in the 2011 census.
(16) We just don’t believe the argument or the rationale is strong enough to transcend what has been around for thousands of years.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jarica Jordan (right), Raven Knight (center) and a friend in downtown Fargo during the gay pride parade.
(17) The long piece of cloth bearing the image of a man's face and body which is kept in Turin dates from at least 1357 when it was first displayed by the widow of a French knight.
(18) Richard Knights Liverpool • As an ex-headteacher who deserted the profession when it became evident that Ofsted was the untouchable body by which the government ensured its will would prevail in schools, I hope that your paper pursues its investigation into the manner in which Ofsted operates .
(19) John Howard livened up the morning by observing that Tony Abbott's knights and dames initiative was so quaintly olde world that not even he would have gone there.
(20) The last time a euthanasia bill came before our parliament, much was made by Baronesses Knight and Finlay of the fact that allowing any form of assisted death had impacted badly on palliative care in Oregon.
Knighthood
Definition:
(n.) The character, dignity, or condition of a knight, or of knights as a class; hence, chivalry.
(n.) The whole body of knights.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thrasher Mitchell: Then why is that idiot Bernard Hogan-Howe getting a knighthood when his plebby plods tried to stitch me up?
(2) So as Dame Quentin and the soon to be Sir Peter amble off, who is in for a gong at our next round of knighthoods?
(3) Tony Abbott has tried to stem the tide of discontent within his own party ranks, defending his decision to award a knighthood to Prince Philip and saying the government is “strong and effective” under his leadership.
(4) The announcement that Crosby was being stripped of the knighthood was made in the London Gazette just as the commission's members were locked in negotiations about the conclusions of their final report, which is expected to run to 600 pages.
(5) Last month the House of Commons voted unanimously to strip Green of his knighthood , which was awarded a decade ago for services to retail.
(6) That helped cement the power of the money men in Westminster, with Sir Fred Goodwin's knighthood being just the most egregious example of government believing the mystique the financial sector wove around itself.
(7) David Cameron said: "I welcome the forfeiture committee's decision on Fred Goodwin's knighthood.
(8) "As a result of my meeting today you ought to understand that David Cameron's cabinet might very shortly be discussing the rather embarrassing situation of George's knighthood ... At a headline of $30m+ you will allow the MoD to internally save face."
(9) I feel that Philip Green has a moral duty to make good the pension scheme and if he doesn’t, while I can’t speak for the committee as a whole, I personally would recommend he should lose his knighthood.” Field said he had not pre-judged the inquiry.
(10) Parker, who holidayed with Cameron in South Africa in 2008, is given a knighthood for services to business, charitable giving and philanthropy.
(11) But on Thursday, Frank Field , chair of the work and pensions committee that is set to begin its inquiry into BHS on Monday, told the Financial Times that he would recommend stripping Green of his knighthood if the retail tycoon did not put up funds to pay off the £571m pension fund deficit.
(12) Abbott had reintroduced knighthoods in a shock announcement in March 2014.
(13) He might even have been tempted to hand his job back to Tony Abbott – and you can bet a knighthood would help to get Trump back onside.
(14) There are no winners in this story, there are only degrees of loserdom – the RBS board wasn't paying attention (yet they still have their knighthoods) and the Bank of England and the Financial Services Authority were practising their "light touch" (it is business-speak for "swing").
(15) Earlier this year Royal Bank of Scotland boss Fred Goodwin, heavily criticised over the bank's near collapse in 2008, was stripped of his knighthood.
(16) And you wonder why he’s been such a popular and successful leader?” A poll on ABC opinion website the Drum asks: “Do you approve of Prince Philip being awarded an Australian knighthood?”.
(17) MPs voted in favour of stripping Green of his knighthood.
(18) He sent a hastily drafted email that 3M later alleged implied that the government would raise questions about a knighthood awarded to 3M's British chief executive.
(19) And so today, having talked to him last night, I want to announce that Her Majesty the Queen, has awarded an honorary knighthood for Sir Edward Kennedy.
(20) Action from the government is needed in banking reform, not simply empty rhetoric on knighthoods or shareholder activism."