Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to knight
Participle: knighted
Gerund: knighting
Indicative
Present
| I | knight |
| you | knight |
| he;she;it | knights |
| we | knight |
| you | knight |
| they | knight |
Perfect
| I | have knighted |
| you | have knighted |
| he;she;it | has knighted |
| we | have knighted |
| you | have knighted |
| they | have knighted |
Past
| I | knighted |
| you | knighted |
| he;she;it | knighted |
| we | knighted |
| you | knighted |
| they | knighted |
Pluperfect
| I | had knighted |
| you | had knighted |
| he;she;it | had knighted |
| we | had knighted |
| you | had knighted |
| they | had knighted |
Future
| I | will knight |
| you | will knight |
| he;she;it | will knight |
| we | will knight |
| you | will knight |
| they | will knight |
Future Perfect
| I | will have knighted |
| you | will have knighted |
| he;she;it | will have knighted |
| we | will have knighted |
| you | will have knighted |
| they | will have knighted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | knight |
| you | knight |
| he;she;it | knight |
| we | knight |
| you | knight |
| they | knight |
Perfect
| I | have knighted |
| you | have knighted |
| he;she;it | have knighted |
| we | have knighted |
| you | have knighted |
| they | have knighted |
Imperfect
| I | knighted |
| you | knighted |
| he;she;it | knighted |
| we | knighted |
| you | knighted |
| they | knighted |
Pluperfect
| I | had knighted |
| you | had knighted |
| he;she;it | had knighted |
| we | had knighted |
| you | had knighted |
| they | had knighted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would knight |
| you | would knight |
| he;she;it | would knight |
| we | would knight |
| you | would knight |
| they | would knight |
Perfect
| I | would have knighted |
| you | would have knighted |
| he;she;it | would have knighted |
| we | would have knighted |
| you | would have knighted |
| they | would have knighted |
Imperative
| you | knight |
| we | Let's knight |
| you | knight |
Verbs conjugated like 'knight'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'knight'
night,
adight,
alight,
aright,
beknight,
benight,
blight,
bright,
dight,
enlight,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
cniht "boy, youth, servant," common W.Gmc. (cf. O.Fris.
kniucht, Du.
knecht, M.H.G.
kneht "boy, youth, lad," Ger.
Knecht "servant, bondsman, vassal"), of unknown origin. Meaning "military follower of a king or other superior" is from c.1100. Began to be used in a specific military sense in Hundred Years War, and gradually rose in importance through M.E. period until it became a rank in the nobility 16c. The verb meaning "to make a knight of (someone)" is from c.1300.
Knighthood is O.E.
cnihthad "the period between childhood and manhood;" sense of "rank or dignity of a knight" is from c.1300. The chess piece so called from c.1440.
Knight in shining armor is from 1965.
Knights of Columbus, society of Catholic men, founded 1882 in New Haven;
Knights of Labor, trade union association, founded in Philadelphia, 1869;
Knights of Pythias, secret order, founded in Washington, 1864.
2. From Middle English knighten, kniȝten, from the noun. Cognate with Middle High German knehten. See: Middle High German '
knehten'.
Sample Sentences
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The king knighted the young squire.
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Highborn boys were sent off to another noble household at the age of about seven, to serve strenuously as pages and later as esquires to their lord before they themselves were knighted, looked around for a "lady" and incidentally got married and produced more knightlets, whom they never got to know at all well. [1971, Clayton C. Barbeau, Future of the family:]