Standard Lemma guide

Knut

name · noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /kəˈnʌt/
  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /knʌt/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ʌt
  • CMU ARPABET: K N AH1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

Alternative form of Cnut (“historical name”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

An idle upper-class man about town.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, informal

Examples

  • Oh Hades! the Ladies who leave their wooden huts, For Gilbert the Filbert, the colonel of the knuts...

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: playboy, hedonist

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

king of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him; on the death of Edmund II, Canute became king of all England (994-1035)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Canute, Cnut, Canute the Great

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: King of England, King of Great Britain

History

Etymology

An alteration of nut.