Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

knightship

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
knight-ship
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The honor bestowed that makes someone a knight.

noun

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

Etymology

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: knyghtschipe

Inflected Forms

Frequently Paired Words

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Synonyms

Questions

What does knightship mean?
The honor bestowed that makes someone a knight.
Where does knightship come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

How to pronounce knightship

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