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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Always thorough and exact, Lyly is careful to begin at the beginning, informing us at first "that the childe shoulde be true borne and no bastarde."
From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by Jusserand, J. J.
Nou ich am in clene live Ne recche ich of childe ne of wive.
From Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 by Ker, W. P. (William Paton)
A barons childe to be begyled,265 It were a curssed dede!
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
“If the offerer be content with these articles, than let his childe be admytted.”
From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by Hazlitt, W. Carew
"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
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
The couple attracted dozens of artists and writers as boarders, including Childe Hassam, Willa Cather and Lincoln Steffens.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2017
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
“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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