lovechild
Syllables: love·child
lovechild is the alternative form of love child.
Meaning of love child
Noun
love child (plural love children)
- A child born as a result of a romantic liaison between parents not married to one another; an illegitimate child.
- Two thousand a-year without debt or drawback — except for the little love-child, indeed; aye, I had forgot her; but she may be 'prenticed out at a small cost, and then what does it signify?1811, Jane Austen, chapter 30, in Sense and Sensibility
- Synonyms:
- bastard, bantling, bastardling, bastid, batchelor's son, by-blow, degenerate, fruit of adultery, haramzada, illegitimate
- Something that includes influences of multiple predecessors.
- The grunge genre was the love child of punk and metal.
Forms of lovechild
| plural | lovechildren |
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Origin of lovechild
From love + child.
Questions about lovechild
- What is lovechild the alternative form of?
- Lovechild is the alternative form of love child.
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