childe

[ chahyld ]

/ tʃaɪld /

noun Archaic.

a youth of noble birth.

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Origin of childe

spelling variant of child

Words nearby childe

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

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Childe

[ chahyld ]

/ tʃaɪld /

noun

Vere Gordon

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

Example sentences 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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