Knightとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: nīt, IPA^(key): /naɪt/
• 韻: -aɪt
• 異形同音異義語: night, nite

語源 1

From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from 古期英語 cniht (“boy, servant”), from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.

別の表記

• knyght

名詞

knight (複数形 knights)

1. (historical) A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
2. (historical) A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
3. (by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.

   King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

4. (modern) A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
5. (literary) A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
6. (chess) 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.
7. (card games, dated) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
8. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.
9. (modern) A generic name for various mushrooms belonging to the order Agaricales, the gilled mushrooms; scientific name Tricholoma.

同意語

• (chess piece): horse (くだけた用法)

派生語

参考

• ♘, ♞

Chess pieces in English · chess pieces, chessmen (see also: chess) (layout · text)
king	queen	rook, castle	bishop	knight	pawn

• Appendix:Chess pieces

語源 2

From Middle English knighten, kniȝten, from the noun. Cognate with Middle High German knehten.

動詞

knight (三人称単数 現在形 knights, 現在分詞 knighting, 過去形および過去分詞形 knighted)

1. (transitive) To confer knighthood upon.

   The king knighted the young squire.

2. (chess, transitive) To promote (a pawn) to a knight.

同意語

• dub

派生語