illegitimate child

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illegitimate child Meaning of "illegitimate child"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents

Synonym(s)

by-blow, illegitimate, love child, whoreson

Usage(s):

  1. The illegitimate child in Einstein's past did not come to light until more than 30 years after his death, when the first volume of his collected papers finally appeared, in 1987.
  2. But in poem after poem, Harold used his tremendous pain--he was an illegitimate child who stood 5 ft.
  3. Oh yes, and Boris Becker sired an illegitimate child in the broom closet of a Nobu restaurant in London.
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