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発音

• ハイフネーション: love‧child

名詞

lovechild (複数形 lovechildren)

1. A child born to parents who are not married to one another.

同意語

• bastard

参考

• illegitimate
• wedlock

アナグラム

• childlove

語源

From love +‎ child.

名詞

love child (複数形 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

名詞

love-child (複数形 love-children)

1. Alternative spelling of love child

アナグラム

• childlove