KNIGHTHOOD

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Aristocrats holding the rank of knight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("knighthood" is a kind of...):

aristocracy; nobility (a privileged class holding hereditary titles)

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 Context examples: 

By Saint James! said he, if ye fall this day ye fall by no mean hands, for the flower of the knighthood of Castile ride under the banner of Don Tello, with the chivalry of Asturias, Toledo, Leon, Cordova, Galicia, and Seville.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)