Thesaurus: changeling

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1. n. One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies.
2. n. A simpleton; an idiot.
3. n. One apt to change; a waverer.
4. a. Taken or left in place of another; changed.
5. a. Given to change; inconstant.
6. n. a person of subnormal intelligence
7. n. a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy
8. 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. 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.
9. n:100 n. a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy