# white knight

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. An individual or corporation that intends to acquire another company in order to avert a hostile takeover.
2. A hero, savior, or righteous individual.
3. Someone who unnecessarily defends someone else.
4. Someone who unnecessarily defends someone else.
5. A mushroom of species Tricholoma album.
6. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, knight.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/white-knight