knight bachelor

2 definitions found

knight bachelor - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Knight bachelor \Knight" bach"e*lor\; pl. Knights bachelors.
     A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English
     knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See
     Bachelor, 4.
     [1913 Webster]

knight bachelor - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  knight bachelor
      n 1: a knight of the lowest order; could display only a pennon
           [syn: knight bachelor, bachelor-at-arms, bachelor]