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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A child born of parents who are not married to each other.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A child of illicit love; a bastard.

Wiktionary

  1. n. euphemistic A child born as a result of a romantic liaison between parents not married to one another; an illegitimate child.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. an illegitimate child.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents

Examples

  • “When they were finished, Chet looked like a big-eyed, potbellied, protohuman in fur-lined, duct-tape space boots — the feline love child of Golem and Doddy the house elf.”

    You Suck

  • “Reading the lyrics as I listen, I think of the album as the love child of Von Teese and Wood, equal parts despair and joy.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Double Life is Twice as Good

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  1. progeny
  1. issue
  1. offspring

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  1. loveless
  2. fondle
  1. love child
  2. dote
  1. Abelard
  2. heart
  1. any
  2. parenting
  1. filial love
  2. affection

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