Lancer vs. Knight — What's the Difference?

A lancer was a type of cavalryman who fought with a lance. Lances were used for mounted warfare in Assyria as early as 700 BC and subsequently by Persia, India, Egypt, China, Greece, and Rome.

A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity.Knighthood finds origins in the Greek hippeis and hoplite (ἱππεῖς) and Roman eques and centurion of classical antiquity.In the Early Middle Ages in Europe, knighthood was conferred upon mounted warriors. During the High Middle Ages, knighthood was considered a class of lower nobility.

A cavalryman armed with a lance.

A medieval tenant giving military service as a mounted man-at-arms to a feudal landholder.

A member of a regiment originally armed with lances.

A medieval gentleman-soldier, usually high-born, raised by a sovereign to privileged military status after training as a page and squire.

A kind of quadrille.

A man holding a nonhereditary title conferred by a sovereign in recognition of personal merit or service to the country.

The music for this dance.

A man belonging to an order or brotherhood.

(military) A cavalry soldier armed with a lance weapon.

A defender, champion, or zealous upholder of a cause or principle.

(entomology) Any of various Asian hesperiid butterflies of the genus Plastingia.

The devoted champion of a lady.

One who lances something.

Abbr. Kt or N(Games) A chess piece, usually in the shape of a horse's head, that can be moved two squares along a rank and one along a file or two squares along a file and one along a rank. The knight is the only piece that can jump other pieces to land on an open square.

One who lances; one who carries a lance; especially, a member of a mounted body of men armed with lances, attached to the cavalry service of some nations.

To raise (a person) to knighthood.

A lancet.

(historical) A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.

A set of quadrilles of a certain arrangement.

(historical) A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.

(formerly) a cavalryman armed with a lance

(by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.

A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.

(modern) A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.

(literary) A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.

(chess) A chess piece, often in the shape of a horse's head, that is moved two squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.

A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.

(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.

(modern) Any mushroom belonging to genus Tricholoma.

(transitive) To confer knighthood upon.

To promote (a pawn) to a knight.

A young servant or follower; a military attendant.

In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life.

A piece used in the game of chess, usually bearing a horse's head.

A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.

To dub or create (one) a knight; - done in England by the sovereign only, who taps the kneeling candidate with a sword, saying: Rise, Sir --.

Originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit

A chessman in the shape of a horse's head; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)

Raise (someone) to knighthood;