Changeling
Changeling noun - A child secretly exchanged for another in infancy.
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Synonyms for Changeling
Replacement and changeling are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Replacement" instead a noun "Changeling".
Nearby Words: change, changeable
Replacement
Replacement noun - A person or thing that takes the place of another.
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Synonyms for Replacement
Changeling and replacement are semantically related. You can use "Changeling" instead a noun "Replacement".
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Related pairs
- equivalent and changeling
- equivalent and replacement
- substitute and changeling
- substitute and replacement
- relief and changeling
- relief and replacement
- deputy and changeling
- deputy and replacement
- dummy and changeling
- dummy and replacement
- exchange and changeling
- exchange and replacement
- makeshift and changeling
- makeshift and replacement
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The twist is that the replacement is actually the real biological daughter, who'd been swapped for a faerie changeling as an infant without anyone realizing it had happened.
Source: Changeling Tale - In Brenna Yovanoff's debut The Replacement, the main character Mackie is a changeling (or a castoff, or a child left in someone else's bed... the Morrigan gives a lot of names).
Source: Changeling Tale -
In Brenna Yovanoff's The Replacement, which is about a changeling boy who was kept alive, most changelings don't actually survive very long.
Source: Undead Child
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