KNIGHT BACHELOR (knights bachelor, knights bachelors)

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Irregular inflected forms: knights bachelor    , knights bachelors   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does knight bachelor mean? 

• KNIGHT BACHELOR (noun)
  The noun KNIGHT BACHELOR has 1 sense:

1. a knight of the lowest order; could display only a pennon

  Familiarity information: KNIGHT BACHELOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KNIGHT BACHELOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A knight of the lowest order; could display only a pennon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bachelor; bachelor-at-arms; knight bachelor

Hypernyms ("knight bachelor" is a kind of...):

knight (originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit)

 Context examples 

It goes to my heart that you should ride forth now a mere knight bachelor, when there is no noble in the land who hath so good a claim to the square pennon, save only that you have not the money to uphold it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)