childe

¹

[ chahyld ]

noun

, Archaic.

1. a youth of noble birth.

Childe

²

[ chahyld ]

noun

1. Vere Gordon [veer], 1892–1957, English anthropologist, archaeologist, and writer; born in Australia.

childe

/ tʃaɪld /

noun

1. archaic.
   a young man of noble birth

Word History and Origins

Origin of childe¹

Spelling variant of child

Word History and Origins

Origin of childe¹

C13: variant of child

Example Sentences

Childe Dundao scored 19 points for Angola, which led by seven early and was still tied with Italy at 52-all late in the third.

From Washington Times

Childe Dundao scored 19 points for Angola, which led by seven early and was still tied with Italy at 52-all late in the third.

From Seattle Times

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

The orange-tinged work by Church, one of the Hudson River School’s most successful artists, is valued at $1 million, and the university hopes to make another $2 million by selling Childe Hassam’s “The Silver Veil and the Golden Gate,” a coastal landscape by a pioneering American Impressionist.

From New York Times

Childe Hassam’s “The Chinese Merchants” impressionistically depicts a Chinatown street scene in Portland, Ore. Thomas Wilmer Dewing’s two pictures of women in flowing white gowns amid leafy landscapes are impressionist treatments of a classical subject, painted on Asian-style folding screens.

From Washington Post