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
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These rudimentes of modestye and vertue the childe lerneth before he can speake, which because they sticke fast vntil he be elder, they profit somwhat to true religiõ.
From The Education of Children by Richard Sherry
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 John Donne
And the childe, in like manner, called such his godfathers or godmothers.”
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
She sayd, "Lullabye, mine own dear childe,165 Lullabye, deare childe, deare; I wolde thy father were a kinge, Thy mothere layd on a biere."
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
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
It was here on Wednesday 3 October 2007 that Robbie pulled in to the car park of the Childe of Hale pub with the cash and banker's draft.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2023
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
In Childe Hassam’s painting of a Central Park pond, two swans warily observe the shoreline strolls of women and children in long skirts.
From New York Times ● May 12, 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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