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

Baptized Relictus Dunstane, a childe found in this parisshe.”—St.

From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Bardsley, Charles W.

Than the childe Papyrius stode forth, and enformed the senatours, how his mother wold haue compelled him to vtter the secrete counsayle: and howe he, to contente her mynde, feyned that leasynge.

From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by Hazlitt, William Carew

A pigge was farrowed with a face like a childe.

From The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by Hayward, John

From tender yeres, in Britain she doth rest, With kinges childe, where she tasteth costly food.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald

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

From Marjorie Dean College Freshman by Lester, Pauline