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chiel

chiel is the alternative form of chield.

Meaning of chield

Noun

chield (plural chields)

  1. (Scotland) A man; a fellow, chap.
    • Kinraddie fair seethed with the news next day, all about the attack on the Mill and how Rob had chased the childes that came up against him […].1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 196

Forms of chiel

pluralchiels

Questions about chiel

What is chiel the alternative form of?
Chiel is the alternative form of chield.

Words near chiel in the dictionary

  1. Chieh-yang
  2. Chiehhsiu
  3. Chiehmo
  4. Chiehshih
  5. Chieko
  6. chiel
  7. chield
  8. chields
  9. chiels
  10. Chiem
  11. Chiemgauer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chiel (page history and authors); chield (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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