love child
See also: lovechild and love-child
Contents
1 English
1.1 Alternative forms
1.2 Noun
1.2.1 Synonyms
1.2.2 Translations
1.3 Anagrams
English
Alternative forms
- love-child
- lovechild
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
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Anagrams
- childlove