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 (ja) (おとしご, otoshigo), 隠し子 (ja) (かくしご)
• Korean: 사생아 (ko) (sasaeng'a), 러브 차일드 (reobeu chaildeu)
• Malay: anak luar nikah
• Navajo: wótaashkiʼ, yátaashkiʼ
• Polish: owoc miłości m
• 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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