love child

See also: lovechild and love-child

English

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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

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, 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

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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