Changeling [noun]

Definition of Changeling:

someone or something that takes the place of another

Opposite/Antonyms of Changeling:


Sentence/Example of Changeling:

Die foolish beoples in the island, they say she is a wechsel-balg—what you call a fairy-elf changeling.

One more story of a "changeling" before we leave the subject.

Everybody believed Ellis to have been a changeling, and one saying of his is well known in that part of the country.

The same writer gives a similar account of the changeling mentioned above, p. 107.

Thiele relates a story in which a wild stallion colt is brought in to smell two babes, one of which is a changeling.

This is hardly a changeling story, as no attempt was made to foist a false child on the parent.

The mother was, of course, pleased to recover it; and the next thing was to dispose of the changeling.

The changeling himself in one of Lady Wilde's tales directs his foster-mother to Fairyland.

In this case we are told that if the child screamed it was a changeling, and it was held fast to prevent its escape.

A smart angry discussion took place between Oberon and Titania as to which of them was to have the little changeling boy.