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

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

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

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

From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Bardsley, Charles W.

And sutch after they haue brought forth childe, are bestowed in marriage vppon the Pieres and Nobility, called Baschæ, and Sangacæ.

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by Painter, William

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