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What (who) is knight bachelor - definition
Knight Bachelor
TITLE GRANTED TO A MAN WHO HAS BEEN KNIGHTED BY THE BRITISH MONARCH BUT NOT INDUCTED AS A MEMBER OF ONE OF THE ORGANISED ORDERS OF CHIVALRY
Knight bachelor; Knights Bachelor; Bachelor-at-arms; Bachelors-at-arms; Knight Batchelor; Knights bachelor; Kt Bach
The title of Knight Bachelor is the basic rank granted to a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not inducted as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry; it is a part of the British honours system. Knights Bachelor are the most ancient sort of British knight (the rank existed during the 13th-century reign of King Henry III), but Knights Bachelor rank below knights of chivalric orders.
knight bachelor
TITLE GRANTED TO A MAN WHO HAS BEEN KNIGHTED BY THE BRITISH MONARCH BUT NOT INDUCTED AS A MEMBER OF ONE OF THE ORGANISED ORDERS OF CHIVALRY
Knight bachelor; Knights Bachelor; Bachelor-at-arms; Bachelors-at-arms; Knight Batchelor; Knights bachelor; Kt Bach
¦ noun (plural knights bachelor) a knight not belonging to any particular order.
Knight bachelor
TITLE GRANTED TO A MAN WHO HAS BEEN KNIGHTED BY THE BRITISH MONARCH BUT NOT INDUCTED AS A MEMBER OF ONE OF THE ORGANISED ORDERS OF CHIVALRY
Knight bachelor; Knights Bachelor; Bachelor-at-arms; Bachelors-at-arms; Knight Batchelor; Knights bachelor; Kt Bach
·- A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. ·see Bachelor, 4.
Examples of use of knight bachelor
1. As well as referring to an unmarried man, it could also refer to a man aspiring to be a knight bachelor, or a man (and now woman) who had taken their first degree.
2. He is styled Sir Cyril Taylor, GBE, which stands for Knight Grand Cross in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, the second gong being a cut above your plain Knight Bachelor.) He sounds like an opportunist, but nobody who knows him thinks he is.