| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Noun] a title of honor given by our Saxon ancestors to the children of princes, and to young nobles. It is composed of adel, or rather athel, the Teutonic term for noble, illustrious, and ling, young posterity.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Noun] a prince, especially an Anglo-Saxon prince or royal heir 1962: Otar, a pleasant and cultured adeling with a tremendous nose and sparse hair, had his two mistresses with him — Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire. (references) | ||
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