English
Noun
only child (plural only children)
- A person who has no siblings.
- A person raised as the sole child in a household.
- An only child is often stereotyped as spoiled.
- 1949, Frank B Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Cheaper by the Dozen, dedication:
- To DAD
- who only reared twelve children
- and
- To MOTHER
- who reared twelve only children
Synonyms
Translations
person who has no siblings
- Armenian: մինուճար (hy) (minučar) (dialectal)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 獨仔/独仔 (duk6 zai2), 獨生仔/独生仔 (duk6 saang1 zai2), 單傳/单传 (daan1 cyun4)
- Mandarin: 獨生子女/独生子女 (zh), 独生子女 (zh) (dúshēng zǐnǚ)
- Czech: jedináček m, jedináčka f
- Danish: enebarn (da) n
- Dutch: enig kind n
- Faroese: einabarn n
- Finnish: ainokainen (fi), ainoa lapsi
- French: enfant unique (fr) m, fils unique (fr) m, fille unique (fr) f
- Georgian: მხოლოდშობილი (mxolodšobili), დედისერთა (dediserta)
- German: Einzelkind (de) n
- Greek: μοναχοπαίδι (el) n (monachopaídi)
- Hebrew: בן יחיד m
- Hungarian: egyke (hu)
- Icelandic: einbirni (is) n, einkabarn n
- Indonesian: anak tunggal (id)
- Irish: aonghin f
- Italian: figlio unico m, figlia unica f
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- Japanese: 一人っ子 (ひとりっこ, hitorikko), 一粒種 (ひとつぶだね, hitotsubudane)
- Lingala: likinda
- Malay: anak tunggal
- Maori: huatahi, tautahi
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: enebarn (no) n
- Nynorsk: einebarn n
- Persian: تکفرزند (tak-farzand)
- Polish: jedynak (pl) m, jedynaczka (pl) f
- Portuguese: filho único m, filha única f
- Romansch: uffant sulet m, affon persul m, unfànt sulet m, unfant sulet m, iffaunt sulet m, iffaunt unic m, affon persul m, unfànt sulet m, unfant sulet m, iffaunt sulet m, iffaunt unic m
- Russian: еди́нственный ребёнок m (jedínstvennyj rebjónok)
- Serbo-Croatian: jedinče, jedinac, jedinica
- Slovak: jedináčik m, jedináčička f
- Spanish: hijo único m, hija única f
- Swedish: ensambarn (sv) n
- Tagalog: bugtong na anak
- Turkish: tek çocuk
- Welsh: unig blentyn
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