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語源

From 中期英語 knyghthode, knyȝthod, from 古期英語 cnihthād, from Proto-West Germanic *knehtahaidu, equivalent to knight +‎ -hood. Cognate with Dutch knechtheid, dialectal German Knechtheit.

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knighthood (countable and uncountable, plural knighthoods)

1. An honour whereby one is made into a knight, and whereafter one is entitled to be called Sir.

   the knighthood of Sir [So-and-So]

   He's got an OBE and MBE, and his recent work should entitle him to a knighthood.

   They rushed to congratulate Sir John Smith on his knighthood.

   • 1632, Iames Shirley [i.e., James Shirley], Changes: Or, Love in a Maze. A Comedie, […], London: […] G. P. for William Cooke, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 3:

     I / Perceive 'tis an advantage for a man to vvear ſpurres, / The rovvell of Knight-hood does gingle in the eare of their / Vnderſtanding.

   • 1953 August, “Sir Sam Fay”, in Railway Magazine, page 506:

     He received his knighthood at the opening of Immingham Dock in 1912.

2. The quality of being a knight.
3. The knights collectively, the body of knights.

派生語

• knighthood-errant
• order of knighthood