knighted
SayNY-tid/ˈnaɪtɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of knight.
The singer was knighted in recognition of decades of charity work.
Seeing that a new queen would allow stalemate, she knighted her pawn instead.
Note
The form usually appears in the passive, because a knighthood is something a person receives: she was knighted for her charity work, he has been knighted for services to music. The active frame belongs to whoever confers the honor. Chess players use the word too, for a pawn promoted to a knight rather than a queen, as when a queen would allow stalemate.
knighted is a form of knight
knight, verb: To give someone the rank or honor of a knight. Full entry
- Spelling
- knight → knighted: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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