Chivalry: Definition and part of speech

Chivalry

  1. n. Exploit.
  2. n. A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry.
  3. n. The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry.
  4. n. The qualifications or character of knights, as valor, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc.
  5. n. A tenure of lands by knight’s service; that is, by the condition of a knight’s performing service on horseback, or of performing some noble or military service to his lord.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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