From love + child.
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.
- 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
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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