On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Childe. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Childe meaning
- Obsolete form of child.
- A child of noble birth.
- The cognomen given to the oldest son prior to his taking his father's title.
Using Childe
- The main meaning on this page is: Obsolete form of child. | A child of noble birth. | The cognomen given to the oldest son prior to his taking his father's title.
- In the example corpus, childe often appears in combinations such as: childe the, childe was, childe who.
Context around Childe
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 3 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Childe
- In this selection, "childe" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 19.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, aka, heroes, poem, harold and became stand out and add context to how "childe" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include byronic heroes childe harold the and chamber of childe the hunter. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "childe" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with childe
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Childe was a philologist turned archaeologist. (6 words)
Which of the Fatui Harbingers is Childe? (7 words)
Childe became separated from the main party and was lost. (10 words)
Childe the Hunter View of the setting of Childe's Tomb According to legend, the cross was erected over the kistvaen (burial chamber) of Childe the Hunter, who was Ordulf, son of Ordgar, an Anglo-Saxon Earl of Devon in the 11th century. (43 words)
The job was given to University of Edinburgh 's Professor Vere Gordon Childe who travelled to Skara Brae for the first time in mid-1927. (25 words)
The update introduces several new characters, like the much-anticipated Tartaglia (aka "Childe"), as well as quality of life adjustments and in-game features. (24 words)
Which of the Fatui Harbingers is Childe? (7 words)
Example sentences (12)
Childe the Hunter View of the setting of Childe's Tomb According to legend, the cross was erected over the kistvaen (burial chamber) of Childe the Hunter, who was Ordulf, son of Ordgar, an Anglo-Saxon Earl of Devon in the 11th century.
The update introduces several new characters, like the much-anticipated Tartaglia (aka "Childe"), as well as quality of life adjustments and in-game features.
Which of the Fatui Harbingers is Childe?
He invented Byronic heroes – Childe Harold the unspiritual pilgrim, the guilt-racked Manfred – to whom he attributed devilish sins he had not actually committed.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
Childe became separated from the main party and was lost.
Childe's view prevails that the term generally covers the period between the end of the Pleistocene and the start of the Neolithic.
Childe was a philologist turned archaeologist.
Childe, who was writing for the masses, did not make use of critical apparatus and offered no attributions in his texts.
In 1579, he published The Shepheardes Calender and around the same time married his first wife, Machabyas Childe.
The job was given to University of Edinburgh 's Professor Vere Gordon Childe who travelled to Skara Brae for the first time in mid-1927.
The Pre-pottery Neolithic of Garstang and Kenyon at Jericho Even as Childe was developing this revolution theme the ground was sinking under him.
Common combinations with childe
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: