Meaning of love child | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A child born as a result of a romantic liaison between parents not married to one another; an illegitimate child.
   euphemistic
2. Something that includes influences of multiple predecessors.

Equivalents

Examples

“Nobody ever came to see her, nobody spoke of her, nobody cared about her. Mr Brass had said once, that he believed she was a ‘love-child’ (which means anything but a child of love).”

“Love child, never meant to be / Love child, born in poverty”

“The grunge genre was the love child of punk and metal.”

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