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knight

/naɪt/
noun
  1. A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.

  2. A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.

  3. (by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.

    "King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table"

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