About The Word Changeling
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Changeling
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What's The Definition Of Changeling?
[n] a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy
[n] a person of subnormal intelligence Synonyms | Synonyms for Changeling: cretin | half-wit | idiot | imbecile | moron | retard Related Terms | Find terms related to Changeling: agent | alternate | alternative | analogy | backup | change | comparison | copy | counterfeit | deputy | double | dummy | elf child | equal | equivalent | ersatz | exchange | fake | fill-in | ghost | ghostwriter | imitation | locum tenens | makeshift | metaphor | metonymy | next best thing | personnel | phony | pinch hitter | proxy | relief | replacement | representative | reserves | ringer | second string | secondary | sign | spares | stand-in | sub | substituent | substitute | substitution | succedaneum | superseder | supplanter | surrogate | symbol | synecdoche | third string | token | understudy | utility player | vicar | vice-president | vice-regent See Also | child | fry | kid | minor | nestling | nipper | shaver | simple | simpleton | small fry | tiddler | tike | tyke | youngster Changeling In Webster's Dictionary \Change"ling\, n. [Change + -ling.]
1. One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of
another, as a child exchanged by fairies.
Such, men do changelings call, so changed by
fairies' theft. --Spenser.
The changeling [a substituted writing] never known.
--Shak.
2. A simpleton; an idiot. --Macaulay.
Changelings and fools of heaven, and thence shut
out.
Wildly we roam in discontent about. --Dryden.
3. One apt to change; a waverer. ``Fickle changelings.''
--Shak.
\Change"ling\, a. 1. Taken or left in place of another; changed. ``A little changeling boy.'' --Shak. 2. Given to change; inconstant. [Obs.] Some are so studiously changeling. --Boyle. |
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