love child

English

Alternative forms

• love-child, lovechild

Noun

love child (plural love children)

1. (euphemistic) A child born as a result of a romantic liaison between parents not married to one another; an illegitimate child.
   • 1841, Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop, ch. 36:

     Nobody ever came to see her, nobody spoke of her, nobody cared about her. Mr Brass had said once, that he believed she was a ‘love-child’ (which means anything but a child of love).

Translations

child born as a result of a romantic liaison between unmarried parents

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 私生子 (cmn) (sīshēngzǐ)

• Dutch: liefdeskind (nl)
• Esperanto: eksteredzeco (eo)
• Finnish: avioton lapsi (fi)
• Hungarian: szerelemgyerek (hu)

• Interlingua: filio illegitime
• Italian: figlio illegittimo (it) m
• Japanese: 私生児 (しせいじ, shiseiji)
• Spanish: hijo natural (es) m, hija natural (es) f
• Turkish: gayrimeşru çocuk
• Volapük: nematikacil

See also

• bastard

Anagrams

• childlove