love child

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.

   Synonyms: bastard; see also Thesaurus:bastard

   • 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 36, in The Old Curiosity Shop:

     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).

   • 1968, “Love Child”, performed by The Supremes:

     Love child, never meant to be / Love child, born in poverty

Translations

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

Bulgarian: извънбра́чно дете́ n (izvǎnbráčno deté) Chinese: Mandarin: 私生子 (zh) (sīshēngzǐ), 私生兒／私生儿 (zh) (sīshēngr) Danish: kærlighedsbarn n 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 (hu) Indonesian: anak luar nikah (id) Interlingua: filio illegitime Irish: páiste suirí m Italian: figlio illegittimo m Japanese: 私生児 (ja) (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) Korean: 사생아 (ko) (sasaeng'a), 러브 차일드 (reobeu chaildeu) Malay: anak luar nikah Navajo: wótaashkiʼ, yátaashkiʼ Portuguese: ilegítimo (pt) m Romanian: copil din flori (ro) m Russian: дитя́ любви́ (ru) 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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