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How to pronounce “changeling”
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Pronunciation guide for changeling
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of changeling with real speech in context.
- Available examples
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- Real speech example
- Dame Stephanie Shirley: Why do ambitious women have flat heads? 13 minutes, 44 seconds
like a changeling in a fairy story,
- Definition summary
- (European folklore, also figurative) In pre-modern European folklore: an infant of a magical creature that was secretly exchanged for a human infant. In British, Irish and Scandinavian mythology the exchanged infants were thought to be those of fairies, sprites or trolls; in other places, they were ascribed to demons, devils, or witches.
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How to pronounce changeling
Dame Stephanie Shirley: Why do ambitious women have flat heads? 13 minutes, 44 seconds
like a changeling in a fairy story,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “changeling”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (European folklore, also figurative) In pre-modern European folklore: an infant of a magical creature that was secretly exchanged for a human infant. In British, Irish and Scandinavian mythology the exchanged infants were thought to be those of fairies, sprites or trolls; in other places, they were ascribed to demons, devils, or witches.
- (by extension) A person or object (especially when regarded as inferior) secretly exchanged for something else.
- (by extension, informal, rare) An infant secretly exchanged with another infant deliberately or by mistake; a swapling.
- (fantasy, science fiction) An organism which can change shape to mimic others; a shape-shifter.
- (archaic, also figurative) A person apt to change their loyalty or thinking; a waverer.
- (obsolete) An idiot, a simpleton.
- [Adjective]
- (archaic, rare) Changeable, fickle, inconstant, wavering.
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