different between knight vs chesspiece

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)

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.

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)

1. (transitive) To confer knighthood upon.

2. (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)

1. knight

Descendants

• English: knight
• Scots: knicht
• Yola: nickht

References

• “kn??ght, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Noun

chesspiece (plural chesspieces)

1. (chess) Alternative spelling of chess piece
   • 2000, Rick Wallach - Myth, legend, dust: critical responses to Cormac McCarthy

     Sacrifice is one of the essential metaphors of the Trilogy, and here, the sacrifice of the chesspiece foreshadows that John Grady will later give his life in avenging the death of the woman he loves.

   • 2008, Franklin Knowles Young - Chess Strategetics Illustrated

     The Queen, for instance, is termed the " strongest," or the ** most powerful" of the chesspieces

   • 2008, November 13, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 hours in Lisbon [1]

     This tower [Torre de Belem] resembling an oversized chesspiece is another architectural wonder of the same era

Synonyms

• chessman

Hyponyms

• (chess): bishop, castle/rook, king, knight, pawn, queen

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Chess_pieces