English
Etymology
From love + child .
Noun
love child (plural love children )
( 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
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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