KNIGHTHOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does knighthood mean? 

• KNIGHTHOOD (noun)
  The noun KNIGHTHOOD has 1 sense:

1. aristocrats holding the rank of knight

  Familiarity information: KNIGHTHOOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KNIGHTHOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Aristocrats holding the rank of knight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("knighthood" is a kind of...):

aristocracy; nobility (a privileged class holding hereditary titles)

 Context examples 

He could tell her nothing new of the wonders of his presentation and knighthood; and his civilities were worn out, like his information.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

As to the gaining of knighthood, in such stirring times it was no great matter for a brave squire of gentle birth to aspire to that honor.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He felt himself God's own mad lover, and no accolade of knighthood could have given him greater pride.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the king during his mayoralty.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“Mon Dieu! if a man could eat himself into knighthood, Humphrey, you had been a banneret at the least,” observed another, amid a burst of laughter.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A gold-embroidered belt of knighthood encircled his loins, with his arms, five roses gules on a field argent, cunningly worked upon the clasp.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Young as he was, and peaceful as was his dress, the dainty golden spurs which twinkled upon his heels proclaimed his knighthood, while a long seam upon his brow and a scar upon his temple gave a manly grace to his refined and delicate countenance.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the other hand, it would be a very grievous thing that you, the Prince of England and the flower of knighthood, should make a vow, whether in ignorance or no, and fail to bring it to fulfilment.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With them also were the pick of the Gascon chivalry—the old Duc d'Armagnac, his nephew Lord d'Albret, brooding and scowling over his wrongs, the giant Oliver de Clisson, the Captal de Buch, pink of knighthood, the sprightly Sir Perducas d'Albret, the red-bearded Lord d'Esparre, and a long train of needy and grasping border nobles, with long pedigrees and short purses, who had come down from their hill-side strongholds, all hungering for the spoils and the ransoms of Spain.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a woman's hand which cast this lime into mine eyes, and though I saw her stoop, and might well have stopped her ere she threw, I deemed it unworthy of my knighthood to hinder or balk one of her sex.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)