childe
noun
a youth of noble birth.
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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
Example Sentences
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And the childe, in like manner, called such his godfathers or godmothers.”
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger
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
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
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 Donne, John
Always thorough and exact, Lyly is careful to begin at the beginning, informing us at first "that the childe shoulde be true borne and no bastarde."
From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by Jusserand, J. J.
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
His reading of Childe Hassam’s patriotic flag paintings is conspicuously strained.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 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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