Usually means: Dishonest person; opposite of knight.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word knave:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. knave: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. knave: Merriam-Webster
  3. knave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. knave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. knave: Collins English Dictionary
  6. knave: Vocabulary.com
  7. Knave, knave: Wordnik
  8. knave: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. knave: Wiktionary
  10. knave: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. knave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. knave: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Knave, knave: Dictionary.com
  14. knave: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Knave (disambiguation), Knave (magazine), Knave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Knave: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. knave: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. knave: Rhymezone
  19. Knave: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. knave: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Knave: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. knave: FreeDictionary.org
  23. knave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. knave: TheFreeDictionary.com

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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