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  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

Tusser, some three hundred or more years ago, declared that "The greatest preferments that childe we can giue, Is learning and nurture, to traine him to liue."

From Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward)

Christening of Roger Peeter, so named of our church; the mother a rogue, the childe was born the 22d July at Mr. Lecroft’s dore.”—Ditto.

From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Bardsley, Charles W.

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

From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Bardsley, Charles W.

"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

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