love child

See also: lovechild and love-child

English

Alternative forms

• love-child, lovechild

Etymology

From love +‎ child.

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.

   Synonym: bastard

   • 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).

Synonyms

• see also Thesaurus:bastard

Translations

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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 私生子 (zh) (sīshēngzǐ)

• Dutch: liefdeskind (nl)
• Esperanto: eksteredzeca infano
• Estonian: sohilaps (et)
• Finnish: avioton lapsi (fi), lehtolapsi (fi)
• French: enfant de l’amour (fr) m
• German: Kind der Liebe n, außereheliches Kind n, uneheliches Kind n
• Hungarian: szerelemgyerek
• Indonesian: anak luar nikah (id)
• Interlingua: filio illegitime
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• Irish: páiste suirí m
• Italian: figlio illegittimo m
• Japanese: 私生児 (しせいじ, shiseiji), ラブチャイルド (rabu chairudo), 落とし子 (おとしご, otoshigo), 隠し子 (かくしご)
• Malay: anak luar nikah
• Navajo: wótaashkiʼ, yátaashkiʼ
• Portuguese: ilegítimo (pt) m
• Russian: дитя́ любви́ n (ditjá ljubví), внебра́чный ребёнок m (vnebráčnyj rebjónok)
• Spanish: hijo natural (es) m, hija natural f
• Swedish: kärleksbarn n
• Turkish: gayrimeşru çocuk
• Volapük: nematikacil

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