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# knightly

«knightly» in Mova's school dictionary: **Like a knight: brave, honest, polite and ready to help…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (no comparative in use)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Like a knight: brave, honest, polite and ready to help others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knightly/#m1)

2) Having to do with knights or their way of life. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knightly/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories of heroes, the brave and fair behaviour that a knight should show

### examples

- The knightly boy saved the girl from the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knightly/#x1)
- A knightly house stood on the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knightly/#x2)
- The story tells of knightly deeds and daring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knightly/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «knightly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knightly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.