childe

[ chahyld ]

/ tʃaɪld /

noun Archaic.

a youth of noble birth.

Nearby words

childbearing, childbed, childbed fever, childbirth, childcare, childe, childe harold's pilgrimage, childe roland to the dark tower came, childermas, childers, childfree

Origin of childe

spelling variant of child

Definition for childe (2 of 2)

Childe

[ chahyld ]

/ tʃaɪld /

noun

Vere Gordon

[veer] /vɪər/, 1892–1957, English anthropologist, archaeologist, and writer; born in Australia.

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Examples from the Web for childe

In 1812 the first two cantos of Childe Harold saw the light.
Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 4. Naturalism in England|Georg Brandes
In Childe Harold, Byron summons dead men and dead nations from their sepulchres, and makes them live and act again.
The Bridling of Pegasus|Alfred Austin
He has Childe Harold in his pocket, and the labour of learning a stanza or two by heart carries him on into Switzerland.
Travelling Sketches.|Anthony Trollope
For in thy stable is a ghost, That grievouslye doth grone: Or else some woman laboures of childe, She is soe woe-begone.
A Book of Ballads, Volume 3|Various

And she said, "It may well be so," but she said it so low that the Childe heard her not.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1|George Saintsbury

British Dictionary definitions for childe

childe

/ (tʃaɪld) /

noun

archaic a young man of noble birth

Word Origin for childe

C13: variant of child

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