love child

/ləv tʃaɪld/
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Other forms: love children

Definitions of love child
  1. noun
    the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
    synonyms: bastard, by-blow, illegitimate, illegitimate child, whoreson
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    type of:
    issue, offspring, progeny
    the immediate descendants of a person
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