knight – English noun declension

English noun forms of knight

Noun: knight
Singularknight
Pluralknights

Sample Sentences

  • Not all knights held fiefs, and it was not unusual for knights to buy themselves freedom from the obligations of the fief, or even to abscond with the arms provided by their lord, becoming a part of the large number of unenfeoffed, wandering knights available for hire […] [2001, Michael S. Drake, Problematics of Military Power: Government, Discipline and the Subject of Violence, →ISBN, page 97:]
  • King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
  • There are two tombs, each bearing effigies of a knight and his lady. One is 14th century, the other 15th century. The earlier knight wears chain mail and his lady has long, flowing hair. The later knight has plate armour, and his wife wears a wimple. [1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 54:]
  • The knight may move to one of the squares nearest to that on which it stands but not on the same rank, file or diagonal. […] There are two knights, on the squares g1 and e1, and one of them moves to the square f3: either Ngf3 or Nef3, as the case may be. [2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, in FIDE, pages 5, 22:]
  • The Knight is quite common in the Srimangal forests, especially along the beds of dry or flowing streams. [2004, Torben Bjørn Larsen, “Nymphalidae”, in Butterflies of Bangladesh: An Annotated Checklist, →ISBN, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2026, Tribe Parthenini, page 98:]
  • The Knight is a rather common species on Pulau Ubin and is regular seen on various parts of the island. [2020 December 13, Khew SK, “Butterfly of the Month - December 2020”, in Butterflies of Singapore (blog), archived from the original on 28 Jun 2026:]
  • We have knights and barons butterflies in Singapore. [2023 June 6, Alan OwYong, “Butterflies of Chiang Mai.”, in Wild Asia (blog), archived from the original on 28 Jun 2026:]

Etymology

From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (“boy; servant, knight”), from Proto-West Germanic *kneht. See: Middle English Nouns 'knight', Old English Nouns 'cniht'.