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knight | youth |

As a proper noun knight

is an english status surname for someone who was a mounted soldier.

As a noun youth is

(lb) the quality or state of being young.

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
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    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 ----

    youth

    English

    (wikipedia youth)

    Noun

  • (lb) The quality or state of being young.
  • :
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  • *:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
  • (lb) The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood.
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  • , volume=101, issue=1, page=62, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Father of Fractals , passage=Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.}}
  • (lb) A young person.
  • :
  • (lb) A young man.
  • *1919 ,
  • *:and then a youth appeared—no one quite knew where from or to whom he belonged—but he settled down with them in a happy-go-lucky way, and they all lived together.
  • (lb) (used in plural form ) Young persons, collectively.
  • Synonyms

    * (quality or state of being young) juvenility, youthfulness * (young person) adolescent, child, kid, lad, teen, teenager, youngster * (young man) boy, young man * adolescents, kids, teenagers, teens, young people, youngsters

    Antonyms

    * (quality or state of being young) age, dotage, old age, senility * (young person) adult, grown-up

    Derived terms

    * fountain of youth * middle youth, mid youth * yoof * youth club * youth culture * youthful * youth hostel * youth worker * youthly * youthy

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