English Dictionary

knave

IPA（発音記号）

/neɪv/

名詞

古語

(archaic) A boy; especially, a boy servant. / (archaic) Any male servant; a menial. / A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person.

日本語の意味

（古語）少年、特に下働きの少年 / （古語）男の召使い、下僕 / ずる賢い、詐欺的な、不正直な人物

The kindly miller handed the knave a warm loaf and sent him on his way.

親切な粉屋は少年に温かいパンを渡して、彼を送り出した。

意味（1）

(archaic) A boy; especially, a boy servant.

意味（2）

(archaic) Any male servant; a menial.

Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave that, doting on his own obsequious bondage, wears out his time, much like his master's ass, For naught but provender, and when he's old – cashier'd! Whip me such honest knaves.

意味（3）

A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person.

He was a man whom scarcely any amount of fortune could have benefited permanently, and who was made to be ruined, to cheat small tradesmen, to be the victim of astuter sharpers: to be niggardly and reckless, and as destitute of honesty as the people who cheated him, and a dupe, chiefly because he was too mean to be a successful knave.

意味（4）

(card games) A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier; a jack.

knaves （ plural ）