Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An adult who is sexually attracted to a child or children.
Wiktionary
- n. a person who is sexually attracted to prepubescent children.
- n. In American psychiatry, a person attracted primarily to prepubescent children.(DSM-IV: Over a period of at least six months, recurrent, intense, sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges or behaviors involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children)
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A person who has pedophilia.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an adult who is sexually attracted to children
Etymologies
- From pedo- + -phile, after Ancient Greek παιδόφιλος (paidophilos) (from παῖς (pais, "boy, child") and φιλέω (phileō, "I love")). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The issue is so fraught, she said, that even basic the terms used are very much in dispute - starting with the term pedophile itself.”
“In contrast to the generally accepted medical definition, the term pedophile is also used colloquially to denote significantly older adults who are sexually attracted to adolescents below the local age of consent”
Think Progress » FACT CHECK: Bush Slashed Funding For School Violence Prevention
“In contrast to the generally accepted medical definition, the term pedophile is also used colloquially to denote significantly older adults who are sexually attracted to adolescents below the local age of consent, as well as those who have sexually abused a child.”
Think Progress » John Walsh Rebuts Conservative Anti-Gay Smears
“: I simply must point out that the term pedophile is not the appropriate one.”
“By definition, a pedophile is an adult that performs sexual acts on or with children.”
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D) and two House Resolutions. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
“And I know a Harvard professor out there was opening, openly lobbying for people not to give any money for the church unless they were assured it wasn't going to pay for what she called pedophile priests.”
“It's a sad comment on how this country regards the welfare of children that our lawmakers would choose to honor a pedophile from the floor of the House.”
“I was shocked when Amanda changed the lyrics of the opening tune, "Missed Me", a song about a pedophile from the child victim's point of view.”
“For these people, pedophile is a sexual orientation, in the same way that heterosexual or homosexual is a sexual orientation.”
“We almost didn ` t have the word pedophile then, you know.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pedophile’.
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Words that shouldn't be used on a fir...
probation, trekkie, wart, unemployed, fetish, suspended driver'..., felon, aerophagia, undies, debt collector, girlfriend, boyfriend and 272 more...
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Offensive Words
The worst of the bunch, bring um on
twat, asshole, pussy, dick, cunt, whore, slut, cum, blowjob, fuck, bitch, fanny and 42 more...
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-PHILE Words
lover of the specified person or thing
acrophile, anglophile, arctophile, astrophile, audiophile, autophile, bibliophile, alcoholphile, cinephile, demophile, discophile, francophile and 22 more...
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Things you dont call your father
Self-explainatory title
asshole, fucker, cocksucker, motherfucker, pedophile, sludgy
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Daily
Daily Vocab List
lull, pious, lurid, objurgate, insurgent, lewd, patio, onus, lampoon, geisha, larceny, maim and 206 more...
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pedo-, ped-, paedo-
of or relating to a child or children
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love
darling, amorous, devotion, rapture, infatuation, cherish, inamorata, inamorato, deify, cosset, tryst, liaison and 45 more...
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bbagins's Words
prowess, melancholy, serendipity, canonical, wretch, surmise, satirical, petrify, enunciate, oxymoron, oxymoron, dolt and 87 more...
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Sucks to Be You
Words that are the basis for ridicule, misunderstanding, and shunning.
midget, effeminate, gay, fag, retard, cripple, blonde, jock, androgynous, hermaphrodite, muslim, pedophile and 7 more...
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sur 1
bureaucrats, pounce, enigma, sought, immortal, crisis, dwell, pedophile, opprobrium, cynosure
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bocanegra's Words
anal, fisting, pedophile, dirtysanchez, bunnies, poo, armpit
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lampbane Scene from The IT Crowd demonstrating a rather unfortunate name.
Nov 13, 2007