illegitimate child

1. 1.

   the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents

   Synonymsbastardby-blowlove childillegitimatewhoreson

   Broaderoffspring

Questions about illegitimate child

What does illegitimate child mean?

illegitimate child means "the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents".

What is another word for illegitimate child?

Close synonyms include bastard, by-blow, love child, illegitimate, whoreson. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is illegitimate child a common word?

illegitimate child is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.