The meaning of Knighted

verb

Invest (someone) with the title of knight.

Usage examples:

He was knighted for his services to industry

noun

(in the middle ages) a man who served his sovereign or lord as a mounted soldier in armour.

Usage examples:

The crossbow was really the first hand-held weapon that could be used by an untrained soldier to in…

noun

(in the uk) a man awarded a non-hereditary title by the sovereign in recognition of merit or service and entitled to use the honorific ‘sir’ in front of his name.

Usage examples:

Counts, knights, barons and marquesses gathered in the guilded ballroom of the hotel to mark the fo…

noun

A chess piece, typically with its top shaped like a horse's head, that moves by jumping to the opposite corner of a rectangle two squares by three. each player starts the game with two knights.

Usage examples:

In chess, if you move your knight on to a pawn's square, the pawn's a goner.

verb

Past simple and past participle of knight

Usage examples:

He was knighted for his work with famine victims.