knighthood

/nahyt-hood/US // ˈnaɪt hʊd //UK // (ˈnaɪthʊd) //

爵位,骑士身份,骑士精神,骑士勋章

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : the rank or dignity of a knight: to confer knighthood upon him.
- : the profession or vocation of a knight.
- : knightly character or qualities.
- : the body of knights.

nounchivalry

Synonyms

At the end of his life, after the AFI dinner, the queen offered, and he accepted, a knighthood.
After his knighthood, I stop by to see him and call him Sir Alfred.
Knighted by the Queen—honorary knighthood by the Queen, I should say.
Prime Minister David Cameron responded by saying the victory should be marked in truly British style: with a knighthood.
“I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis,” the letter reads.
He then received the honour of knighthood but had retired from active service and become a director of his company.
Thereupon the Prince went to Westminster Abbey and conferred knighthood upon his companions.
On his first absence after receiving knighthood he is taken prisoner by the Lady of Malehaut, who detains him in her castle.
"Gilbert," said the nobleman, who was puffing himself up at the coach window, in his handsome red sash of the order of knighthood.
"I trust it will be found keen enough to satisfy any who question now my knighthood," came back the hot retort.