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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An adult who is sexually attracted to a child or children.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a person who is sexually attracted to prepubescent children.
  2. 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

  1. n. A person who has pedophilia.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an adult who is sexually attracted to children

Etymologies

  1. From pedo- +‎ -phile, after Ancient Greek παιδόφιλος (paidophilos) (from παῖς (pais, "boy, child") and φιλέω (phileō, "I love")). (Wiktionary)

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