Changeling

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A child secretly exchanged for another.
  • n. Archaic A changeable, fickle person.
  • n. Archaic A person of deficient intelligence.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. In British, Irish and Scandinavian mythology, an infant of a fairy, sprite or troll that the creature has secretly exchanged for a human infant.
  • n. An infant secretly exchanged with another infant.
  • n. An organism which can change shape to mimic others.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies.
  • n. A simpleton; an idiot.
  • n. One apt to change; a waverer.
  • adj. Taken or left in place of another; changed.
  • adj. Given to change; inconstant.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A child left or taken in the place of another; especially, in popular superstition, a strange, stupid, ugly child left by the fairies in place of a beautiful or charming child that they have stolen away.
  • n. Figuratively, anything changed for or put in the place of another, or the act of so changing.
  • n. One apt to change; a waverer.
  • Exchanged: specifically applied to a child fancied to have been exchanged for another by the fairies.
  • Given to change; inconstant; fickle: as, “studiously changeling,”
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy
  • n. a person of subnormal intelligence
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    youngster    minor    nestling    shaver    kid   
    Cross Reference
    idiot   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    simpleton    idiot    waverer    changed    inconstant   
    Same Context
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    gecko    polypus    creature    a-lying   
     
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