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

Alnwick ordains “that fro hense forthe ye suffre no seculere persone, woman ne childe, lyg be night in the dormytorye.”

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen

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)

Eliz: Rodger to keepe a base childe founde by the p'rishe and for half of a pecke of blye, XVIIId.

From The Cornwall Coast by Salmon, Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie)

Renold Falcon, a childe borne in Falcon Court, bapt.

From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Bardsley, Charles W.

Nor is the midge of four feete teyne, more than the olde, olde childe.

From Marjorie Dean College Freshman by Lester, Pauline