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词汇 knight errant
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Definition of knight errant in English:

knight errant

nounPlural knights errant
  • A medieval knight wandering in search of chivalrous adventures.

    (中世纪)游侠骑士

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Don Quijote explains that any knight errant who did not ask for a lady love's favor and protection would be subject to criticism.
    • At last, Don Quijote decides to seek honor and glory and fulfill his duty (to right wrongs), and become an actual knight errant.
    • A favourite subject of literature and folklore, at one extreme he appears as a knight errant, driven on by a desire for honour and sense of adventure, while at the other he is a bully and a braggart.
    • After years of obsessively reading books of chivalry, his mind finally snaps and he decides to become an actual knight errant like those in the tales he has read.
    Synonyms
    chevalier, cavalier, cavalryman, horseman, equestrian

Derivatives

  • knight-errantry

  • noun
    • Together with his absurd cowardly squire Crabshaw, and his horse Bronzomarte, the half-mad Launcelot undertakes a quixotic life of knight-errantry, warring against the enemies of virtue and reason.

Definition of knight errant in US English:

knight errant

nounˈnīt ˈerənt
  • A medieval knight wandering in search of chivalrous adventures.

    (中世纪)游侠骑士

    Example sentencesExamples
    • At last, Don Quijote decides to seek honor and glory and fulfill his duty (to right wrongs), and become an actual knight errant.
    • Don Quijote explains that any knight errant who did not ask for a lady love's favor and protection would be subject to criticism.
    • After years of obsessively reading books of chivalry, his mind finally snaps and he decides to become an actual knight errant like those in the tales he has read.
    • A favourite subject of literature and folklore, at one extreme he appears as a knight errant, driven on by a desire for honour and sense of adventure, while at the other he is a bully and a braggart.
    Synonyms
    chevalier, cavalier, cavalryman, horseman, equestrian
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