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Meaning of "childly" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CHILDLY

childly  [ˈtʃaɪldlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CHILDLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Childly is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CHILDLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of childly in the English dictionary

The definition of childly in the dictionary is of or like a child.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CHILDLY


baldly
ˈbɔːldlɪ
boldly
ˈbəʊldlɪ
coldly
ˈkəʊldlɪ
cuckoldly
ˈkʌkəldlɪ
detailedly
ˈdiːteɪldlɪ
mildly
ˈmaɪldlɪ
newfangledly
ˈnjuːˈfæŋɡəldlɪ
old-worldly
ˌəʊldˈwɜːldlɪ
otherworldly
ˌʌðəˈwɜːldlɪ
overboldly
ˌəʊvəˈbəʊldlɪ
puzzledly
ˈpʌzəldlɪ
ribaldly
ˈrɪbəldlɪ
troubledly
ˈtrʌbəldlɪ
unbridledly
ʌnˈbraɪdəldlɪ
untroubledly
ʌnˈtrʌbəldlɪ
unwieldly
ʌnˈwiːldlɪ
unworldly
ʌnˈwɜːldlɪ
vildly
ˈvaɪldlɪ
wildly
ˈwaɪldlɪ
worldly
ˈwɜːldlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CHILDLY

childermas
Childers
childhood
childhood sweetheart
childish
childishly
childishness
childless
childlessness
childlike
childlikeness
Childline
childminder
childminding
childness
childproof
children
children´s home
Children´s Panel
childrenswear

WORDS THAT END LIKE CHILDLY

allegedly
badly
broadly
deadly
friendly
gladly
hardly
kindly
outwardly
proudly
rapidly
repeatedly
reportedly
sadly
secondly
supposedly
to put it mildly
undoubtedly
unexpectedly
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Synonyms and antonyms of childly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «childly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CHILDLY

Find out the translation of childly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of childly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «childly» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

稚气
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

childly
570 millions of speakers

English

childly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

childly
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

childly
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

детски
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

childly
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শিশুবৎ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

childly
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kanak-kanak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

childly
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

childly
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

childly
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Anak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

childly
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

childly
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बालकाचा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çocuksu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

childly
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

childly
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

детски
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

childly
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

childly
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

childly
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

childly
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

childly
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of childly

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CHILDLY»

The term «childly» is used very little and occupies the 164.972 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CHILDLY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «childly» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «childly» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about childly

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHILDLY»

Discover the use of childly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to childly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Childly Language: Children, language and the social world
The distinctiveness of childly status is highlighted in the texts concerned with the school closure incident, and withthe teaching of morality inschools. For example, theboy aat the centre« ofthestoryis depicted as childlyinreferring expressions ...
Alison Sealey, 2014
2
Memorials of Theophilus Trinal
But if any make themselves childish rather than childly, thinking to become children in faith by becoming such in knowledge — these are of the dark kingdom of ignorance. When faith in the man has become childly, it is yet a higher thing than ...
Thomas Toke Lynch, 1882
3
Journal of Education
"1 hope you will not think I am backing down," began Miss Childly, hesitatingly, " but I shall be very unhappy if the petition is granted." Miss Contract's keen gray eyes turned critically, but not unkindly, to the little primary teacher. '"Miss Childly's  ...
4
A Supplementary English Glossary
537) : " a childly love." In the extract it is an adverb. Then she smiled around right childly, then she gazed around right queenly. — Mrs. Browning, Lady Geraldine's Courtship. CniLDSHir, relationship as a child. Concluding Christ as the first ...
Thomas Lewis Owen Davies, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 1881
5
A Commentary on Saint Paul's Epistle to the Galatians
And this is done when I again with this groaning do cry, and with a childly heart do assent unto this name of Father. Herethen the Father and the Son meet, and the marriage is made up without all pomp and solemnity ; that is to say, nothing at  ...
Martin Luther, 1848
6
Preciosa. A tale. [By F. T. Palgrave.]
He heard the whispered words of childly glee and childly confidingness; he felt once more the touch of innocent life. Or, again, they were in the school-room of the old Hall, and his long-lost brother was with them, and Lucy had fetched her ...
Francis Turner Palgrave, 1852
7
Sermons preacht on particular occasions
... dome of our magnificent cathedral. It is a sight of almost overpowering grandeur and awfulness. Nine or ten thousand childly souls stand round in array ; nine or ten thousand childly OR THE JUDGEMENT OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA. 235.
Julius Charles Hare, 1858
8
Sermons
Nine or ten thousand childly souls stand round in array ; nine or ten thousand childly voices join in singing the praises of God, in singing the song which the angels sing before the throne of the Saviour. And that which they do S20 THE WORTH ...
Julius Charles Hare, 1846
9
The mission of the Comforter, and other sermons
Nine or ten thousand childly souls stand round in array; nine or ten thousand childly voices join in singing the praises of God, in singing the song which the angels sing before the throne of the Saviour. And that which they do 320 THE WORTH ...
Julius Charles Hare, 1846
10
Literary News
They were the first imaginative efforts of the human mind, the first examples of its creative energy, and no record of that energy and that mind that has descended to us is so absolutely truthful an exhibition of the childly simplicity of both as ...
Frederick Leypoldt, 1893

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHILDLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term childly is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Theater Review: Matilda Is an Irresistible, Whiz-Bang Musical
And the songs by Tim Minchin, with their distorted distant-circus melodies and off-kilter lyrics, have the right childly imprecision, at least when ... «Vulture, Apr 13»
2
Lawrence O'Donnell Tears Into Ted Cruz: 'So Perfectly And …
There is mud-slinging and smearing all the time in politics, but O'Donnell singled out Cruz for being “so perfectly and childly McCarthyesque. «Mediaite, Mar 13»
3
Great Russian Clown
... comedies is indisputably Brilliantovaya ruka (The Diamond Arm) (1968), which substantially owes its immense popularity to the naive and childly spontaneous ... «Russia-InfoCenter, Dec 06»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Childly [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/childly>. May 2024 ».
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