- 1爵士榮銜（英國封爵士；不是中古騎士的職位）
A knighthood is a British honour: a rank and title given to a man to thank him for great work — in science, sport, charity, business, or public life — not only for fighting. The king or queen confers it. After that, people may call him Sir before his first name. The knighthood is the honour; the man is a knight, though he does not ride a horse or wear armour. That older picture still sits in the word, and it confuses : the modern knighthood is a palace thank-you with a title, not a job as a soldier. A woman who receives the matching honour is a Dame, not a Sir; in loose talk people may still say she was given a knighthood, though the tidy word for her title is . The honour can be taken away if the person later brings shame on it. It is formal, British, and a little ceremonial.
組成knight + -hood. -hood marks a state or rank (as in childhood). From Middle English knyghthode, from Old English cnihthād, from Proto-West Germanic *knehtahaidu. Dutch knechtheid and dialectal German Knechtheit are cousins, but those words lean toward being a servant — a reminder that the old word behind knight started closer to 'young man / servant' than to a prince in armour.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
knighthoodnoun
- 1
An honour whereby one is made into a knight, and whereafter one is entitled to be called Sir.
- the knighthood of Sir [So-and-So]
- He's got an OBE and MBE, and his recent work should entitle him to a knighthood.
- 2
The quality of being a knight.
- 3
The knights collectively, the body of knights.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。