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daimyo
English
Alternative forms
- daimio
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese ?? (daimy?), from Middle Chinese ?? (dàj-mjieng, “excellent one”), from ? (“great”) + ? (“name”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: d?'my?, IPA(key): /?da?.mj??/
- (US) enPR: d?'my?, IPA(key): /?da?.mjo?/
Noun
daimyo (plural daimyos or daimyoes or daimyo)
- (historical) A lord during the Japanese feudal period.
Translations
See also
- samurai
- shogun
French
Alternative forms
- daïmio
- daimyô
- daimy?
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese ?? (daimy?), from Middle Chinese ?? (dàj-mjieng, “excellent one”), from ? (“great”) + ? (“name”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /daj.mjo/
Noun
daimyo m (plural daimyos)
- (historical) daimyo
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knight
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: n?t, IPA(key): /na?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
- Homophones: night, nite
Etymology 1
From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (“boy, servant”), from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.
Alternative forms
- knyght
Noun
knight (plural knights)
- (historical) A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
- (historical) A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
- (by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
- King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
- (modern) A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
- (literary) A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
- (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.
- (card games, dated) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.
- (modern) A generic name for various mushrooms belonging to the order Agaricales, the gilled mushrooms; scientific name Tricholoma.
Synonyms
- (chess piece): horse (informal)
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Chess pieces
Etymology 2
From Middle English knighten, kni?ten, from the noun. Cognate with Middle High German knehten.
Verb
knight (third-person singular simple present knights, present participle knighting, simple past and past participle knighted)
- (transitive) To confer knighthood upon.
- (chess, transitive) To promote (a pawn) to a knight.
Synonyms
- dub
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- paladin
- baronet
Middle English
Alternative forms
- knighte, knyght, knyghte, kni?t, kni?te, kny?t, kny?te
Etymology
From Old English cniht, from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /knixt/, [kniçt]
- (dialectal or Late ME) IPA(key): /kni?t/
- Rhymes: -ixt
Noun
knight (plural knightes or knighten)
- knight
Descendants
- English: knight
- Scots: knicht
- Yola: nickht
References
- “kn??ght, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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