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Knight vs Baron - What's the difference?

knight | baron |

As nouns the difference between knight and baron

is that knight is a warrior, especially of the Middle Ages while baron is the male ruler of a barony.

As proper nouns the difference between knight and baron

is that knight is an English status surname for someone who was a mounted soldier while Baron is {{surname}.

As a verb knight

is to confer knighthood upon.

knight

English

(wikipedia knight)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) knight, kniht, from (etyl) cniht, cneht, ‘to ball up, pinch, compress’.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A warrior, especially of the Middle Ages.
    • King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
  • A young servant or follower; a military attendant.
  • Nowadays, a person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
  • (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.
    • Synonyms
    * (chess piece) horse (rare)
    Derived terms
    * knight adventurer * knight adventurous * knightage * Knight Bachelor, knight bachelor * knight-bairn * knight-banneret * knight baronet * knight brother * knight caligate of arms * knight-cross * knight-errant * knightess * knightfully * knight-head * knighthood * knightify * knight in shining armor, knight in shining armour * knightless * knightling * knightly * Knight Marshal, knight-marshal * knight-money * knight of adventurers * knight of arms * Knight of Grace * knight of industry, knight of the industry * Knight of Justice * Knight of Malta * Knight of Parliament * Knight of Rhodes * knight of St Crispin * Knight of St John * knight of the carpet * knight of the chamber * Knight of the Bath * knight of the blade * knight of the brush * knight of the cleaver * knight of the collar * Knight of the Commonty * knight of the cue * knight of the elbow * knight of the field * Knight of the Garter * knight of the grammar * knight of the knife * knight of the needle * knight of the order of the fork * knight of the pen * knight of the pencil * knight of the pestle * knight of the post * knight of the quill * knight of the rainbow * knight of the road * Knight of the Round Table * Knight of the Rueful Countenance * knight of the shears * Knight of the Shire * knight of the spigot * Knight of the Spur * knight of the square flag * knight of the stick * knight of the thimble * Knight of the Thistle * knight of the vapour * knight of the wheel * knight of the whip * knight of the whipping-post * Knight of Windsor * Knights of Columbus * Knights of Labor * Knights of Pythias * knight's cross * knight-service * knight's fee * knightship * knight's milfoil * knight's move * knight's pondwort * knight's progress * knight's star * knight's water-sengreen * knight's wort * knight's woundwort * Knight Templar * knight wager * knight-weed * knight-wife * Military Knight of Windsor * Naval Knights of Windsor * (l)
    See also
    * *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) knighten, , from the noun. Cognate with (etyl) knehten.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To confer knighthood upon.
    • The king knighted the young squire .
  • (chess) To promote (a pawn) to a knight.
    • Synonyms
    * dub
    Derived terms
    * knighted * knighting

    See also

    * paladin * baronet ----

    baron

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The male ruler of a barony.
  • A male member of the lowest rank of British nobility.
  • A particular cut of beef, made up of a double sirloin.
  • * 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) ,
    • Such portentous appetites had Queequeg and Tashtego, that to fill out the vacancies made by the previous repast, often the pale Dough-Boy was fain to bring on a great baron of salt-junk, seemingly quarried out of the solid ox.
  • A person of great power in society, especially in business and politics.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
    • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
  • (legal, obsolete) A husband.
    • baron and feme: husband and wife

    Derived terms

    * baron and femme * barony * robber baron

    Related terms

    * baroness * baronet * baronetcy

    Anagrams

    *

    References

    * "baron n. ", Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989; first published in New English Dictionary, 1885. ----