Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

elf-knight

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.56 in modern English

Syllables: elf-knight
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An elf in the guise of a medieval knight, typically armoured and riding a horse.

Example Sentences

"Hurrah! hurrah! the elf-knights enter. Each with his grasshopper at a canter!"
"She heard an Elf knight his horn blowing, The first morning in May."
"And the sword that had visited Earth from so far away smote like the falling of thunderbolts [...] and the runes in Alveric’s far-travelled sword exulted, and roared at the elf-knight; until in the dark of the wood, amongst branches severed from disenchanted trees, with a blow like that of a thunderbolt riving an oak-tree, Alveric slew him."

Inflected Forms

elf-knights (plural)

Questions

What does elf-knight mean?: An elf in the guise of a medieval knight, typically armoured and riding a horse.

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