Knightship
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Knightship is a noun meaning The honor bestowed that makes someone a knight.
Meaning
The honor bestowed that makes someone a knight.
More Meanings
- Honorific formal address to a knighted person. Usually used with the relevant possessive pronoun.
- (cellular automata) A spaceship, in a cellular automaton, which moves knightwise (i.e., moving two spaces along the x-axis for every space it moves along the y-axis [or vice versa], in the manner of a chess knight); a spaceship which moves with slope 2; a (2,1) spaceship.
Example Sentences
Fare your knightship well.
No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,--not though it be of the Garter,--confers so fair an honour.
Word Forms
- knightships
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include knighthood, knight, knightdom, knightage, order, squirehood.
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