Usually means: Dishonest person; opposite of knight.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word knave:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. knave: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. knave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. knave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. knave: Collins English Dictionary
  5. knave: Vocabulary.com
  6. Knave, knave: Wordnik
  7. knave: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. knave: Wiktionary
  9. knave: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. knave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. knave: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Knave, knave: Dictionary.com
  13. knave: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Knave (disambiguation), Knave (magazine), Knave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Knave: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. knave: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. knave: Rhymezone
  18. Knave: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. knave: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Knave: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. knave: Free Dictionary
  22. knave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. knave: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Knave: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knave: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knave: Genealogy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Knave, knave: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See knaves as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (archaic) A boy; especially, a boy servant.
noun:  (archaic) Any male servant; a menial.
noun:  (dated) A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person.
noun:  (card games) A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier; a jack.

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