knighthood

 

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From Middle English knyghthode, knyȝthod, from Old English cnihthād, from Proto-West Germanic *knehtahaidu, equivalent to knight +‎ -hood. Cognate with Dutch knechtheid, dialectal German Knechtheit.

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knighthood (countable and uncountable, plural knighthoods)

1. An honour whereby one is made into a knight, and one can thereafter be called "Sir"

   He's got an OBE and MBE, and his recent work should entitle him to a knighthood.

   • 1953 August, “Sir Sam Fay”, in Railway Magazine, page 506:

     He received his knighthood at the opening of Immingham Dock in 1912.

2. The quality of being a knight.
3. The knights collectively, the body of knights.

• knighthood-errant
• order of knighthood