childe
noun
a youth of noble birth.
childe
1 American
[chahyld]
/ tʃaɪld /
noun
Archaic.
Childe
2
American
[chahyld]
/ tʃaɪld /
noun
childe
British
/ tʃaɪld /
noun
Etymology
Origin of childe
Spelling variant of child
Example Sentences
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For þe wifues goþ þare mid childe; alse þe deor wilde. bi euereche ȝere; hii goþ mid childe þere.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Joseph Hall
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 Eileen Power
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 Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon
And noght to been a wyf, and be with childe.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin
And because after the olde prouerbe: Lyke reioyseth in lyke, ye master muste in maner play the childe againe, that he may be loued of the chylde.
From The Education of Children by Richard Sherry
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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