Thesaurus: changeling
One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies.
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Definitions
- 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.
- a. Taken or left in place of another; changed.
- a. Given to change; inconstant.
- n. a person of subnormal intelligence
- n. a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy
- n:100 n. a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy