"knightship" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: knightships [plural]
Etymology: From knight + -ship. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|knight|ship}} knight + -ship Head templates: {{en-noun}} knightship (plural knightships)
  1. The honor bestowed that makes someone a knight.
    Sense id: en-knightship-en-noun-B-CnA0lE
  2. Honorific formal address to a knighted person. Usually used with the relevant possessive pronoun.
    Sense id: en-knightship-en-noun-XTDBpUGv Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -ship Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ship: 35 65
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Sense 1. knighthood
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: knightships [plural]
Etymology: knight + ship Etymology templates: {{compound|en|knight|ship}} knight + ship Head templates: {{en-noun}} knightship (plural knightships)
  1. (cellular automata) A spaceship, in a cellular automaton, which moves knightwise (i.e., moving two spaces along the x-axis for every space it moves along the y-axis [or vice versa], in the manner of a chess knight); a spaceship which moves with slope 2; a (2,1) spaceship. Categories (topical): Cellular automata Hypernyms: oblique spaceship Coordinate_terms: zebraship spaceship) (alt: (3), antelopeship spaceship) (alt: (4) Coordinate_terms (A spaceship, in a cellular automaton, which moves knightwise (i.e., moving two spaces along the x-axis for every space it moves along the y-axis [or vice versa], in the manner of a chess knight); a spaceship which moves with slope 2; a (2,1) spaceship.): camelship spaceship) (alt: (3), giraffeship spaceship) (alt: (4), ibisship spaceship) (alt: (5), flamingoship spaceship) (alt: (6)
    Sense id: en-knightship-en-noun-rIA3ff6E Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 33 48 Topics: cellular-automata, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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