Changeling [noun]
Definition of Changeling:
someone or something that takes the place of another
Synonyms of Changeling:
● Backup
● Vicar
● Deputy
● Proxy
● Stopgap
● Sub
● Supply
● Resort
● Symbol
● Fill-in
● Delegate
● Relay
● Recourse
● Refuge
● Ghost
● Dummy
● Resource
● Standby
● Double
● Relief
● Agent
● Reserve
● Stand-in
● Locum
● Temp
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.