different between shogun vs knight

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) xogun

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (sh?gun), itself the short form of ????? (seii taish?gun, literally “general who overcomes the barbarians”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: sh?'g?n, IPA^(key): /??????n/
• Rhymes: -????n

Noun

shogun (plural shoguns or shogun)

1. The supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan.
   • 1619: W. W. Gent (tr.), A briefe relation of the persecution lately made against the Catholike christians, in the Kingdome of Iaponia, devided into two books

     The third is the Shogun who reygneth at the pre?ent, and hath ray?ed the per?ecution (whereof this booke intreateth) again?t the Chri?tians, and he as it ?eemeth is acknowledged as Lord of all the three?core and ?ix Kingdomes of Iaponia.

Derived terms

• shogunate
• shogunal

Translations

See also

• shogun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• snough

Danish

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (sh?gun).

Noun

shogun

1. shogun

Declension

French

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (sh?gun).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.?un/

Noun

shogun m (plural shoguns)

1. shogun

Derived terms

• shogunal
• shogunat

Further reading

• “shogun” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (sh?gun).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o.?un/
• Hyphenation: sho?gun

Noun

shogun (first-person possessive shogunku, second-person possessive shogunmu, third-person possessive shogunnya)

1. Nonstandard spelling of syogun.

Italian

Alternative forms

• sciogun

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ?? (sh?gun).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o??un/, [?o??un?]
• Hyphenation: sho?gùn

Noun

shogun m (invariable)

1. shogun

Derived terms

• shogunale
• shogunato

Polish

Alternative forms

• siogun, szogun

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (sh?gun).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.?un/, /???.?un/

Noun

shogun m pers

1. (uncommon) shogun

Declension

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.