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childe
/tʃɪld/
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What does childe mean?
noun
- A child of noble birth.
- The cognomen given to the oldest son prior to his taking his father's title.
- A vampire who was turned by another vampire (the childe's sire) in a particular way.
More meanings (3)
proper noun
- A surname.
noun
- (obsolete) Obsolete form of child.
- (historical) A term of address for the eldest son of a lord or for a candidate for knighthood.
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IPA pronunciation
/tʃɪld/
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“Yes, I feel like Byron’s ‘Childe Harold’—only it isn’t really my ‘native shore’ that I’m watching,” said Anne, winking her gray eyes vigorously.
Many of them sat and brooded over the crumbs of their repast, and made me wonder, as Childe Roland wondered, what evil they had done that they should be punished so.
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Practically, I think, Childe Harold would have found it a dreadful bore to make “the Desert his dwelling-place,” for at all events, if he adopted the life of the Arabs he would have tasted no solitude.
Not so the Greek Childe Roland who set the slug-horn to his lips and blew a challenge.
Some of them she knew; the Dying Gladiator she had read about in “Childe Harold” almost as long ago as she could remember; he was strongly associated with Dr. Archie and childish illnesses.