Definition of Sir lancelot

1. Noun. (Arthurian legend) one of the knights of the Round Table; friend of King Arthur until (according to some versions of the legend) he became the lover of Arthur's wife Guinevere.

Exact synonyms: Lancelot
Category relationships: Arthurian Legend
Generic synonyms: Character, Fictional Character, Fictitious Character

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sir Lancelot

Sir John Everett Millais
Sir John Falstaff
Sir John Frederick William Herschel
Sir John Gielgud
Sir John Hawkins
Sir John Hawkyns
Sir John Herschel
Sir John Ross
Sir John Suckling
Sir John Tenniel
Sir John Vanbrigh
Sir Joseph Banks
Sir Joseph John Thomson
Sir Joseph Paxton
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Sir Lancelot
Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier
Sir Leonard Hutton
Sir Leonard Woolley
Sir Leslie Stephen
Sir Martin Frobisher
Sir Matthew Flinders
Sir Mortimer Wheeler
Sir Noel Pierce Coward
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge
Sir Oliver Lodge
Sir Patrick Manson
Sir Paul Gavrilovich Vinogradoff
Sir Peter Brian Medawar
Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Literary usage of Sir lancelot

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"The lake referred to was a sort of enchanted delusion to conceal her demesnes. Hence the cognomen of du Lac given to the knight. sir lancelot goes in search ..."

2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1791)
"... the reft j But good sir lancelot du Lake, who was an. He for his deeds and feats of armes all others proved well, [did excell. ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... and the voluminous tales of sir lancelot and Sir Tristram were devoutly studied by the princes and nobles, who disregarded the genuine heroes and ..."

4. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, Alfred William Pollard, William Caxton (1900)
"CHAPTER VIII How Merlin prophesied thai two the best knights of the world should fight there, which were sir lancelot and Sir Tristram. ..."

5. The English Illustrated Magazine (1889)
"Also, sir lancelot, for all the love that ever was betwixt us, make no tarrying, ... Therefore, sir lancelot, I require thee and beseech thee heartily, ..."

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