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• childe
  childe

  noun

  a youth of noble birth.
• Childe
  Childe

  noun

  Vere Gordon 1892–1957, English anthropologist, archaeologist, and writer; born in Australia.

childe

¹ American  

[chahyld] / tʃaɪld /

noun

Archaic.

1. a youth of noble birth.

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Childe ² American  

[chahyld] / tʃaɪld /

noun

1. Vere Gordon 1892–1957, English anthropologist, archaeologist, and writer; born in Australia.

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childe British  

/ tʃaɪld /

noun

1. archaic a young man of noble birth

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Etymology

Origin of childe

Spelling variant of child

Example Sentences

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 Sherry, Richard

Buried Creature, daughter of Agnes Mathews, syngle woman, the seconde childe.

From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Bardsley, Charles W.

Nor is the midge of four feete teyne, more than the olde, olde childe.

From Marjorie Dean College Freshman by Lester, Pauline

But if any of them do conceyue, and bring forth childe, then she aboue all other is honoured, and had in reuerence, and is called the Soltanes most worthy.

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by Painter, William

"If the childe be mine, faire Ellen," he sayd, "Be mine, as you doe sweare, Then take you Cheshire and Lancashire both, And make that child your heyre."

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various