childe
noun
a youth of noble birth.
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childe
1 American
[chahyld]
/ tʃaɪld /
noun
Archaic.
Childe
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American
[chahyld]
/ tʃaɪld /
noun
childe
British
/ tʃaɪld /
noun
Etymology
Origin of childe
Spelling variant of child
Example Sentences
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A barons childe to be begyled,265 It were a curssed dede!
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
For that which is denied in other generations is done in this of yours: for here is superfetation, childe upon childe, and that which is more strange twins at a latter conception.
From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by Donne, John
Once ended thy haruest let none be begilde, please such as did helpe thee, man, woman and childe.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
Eliz: Rodger to keepe a base childe founde by the p'rishe and for half of a pecke of blye, XVIIId.
From The Cornwall Coast by Salmon, Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie)
I erre, thou art no childe to me, Nor longer Il'e thy louing father be.
From Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) by Miller, Paul William
A more sophisticated version of the Marxist model was developed in the 1930s by V. Gordon Childe, the archaeologist who first named the Neolithic Revolution and the Urban Revolution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
DePree points out a 17th Century fireplace that once belonged to poet Lord Byron, who visited while writing his seminal work Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2022
Forty-two of the oil and watercolor landscapes are the subject of a traveling exhibition and the book “American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Island of Shoals.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2016
His reading of Childe Hassam’s patriotic flag paintings is conspicuously strained.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2016
“I am not now that which I have been,” Byron wrote in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, and that could have been Bobby’s answer to his spiritual change near the end of his life.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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