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A stereotypical characteristic of normal family life; frequently used ironically.
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An adopted son or daughter.
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A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity (e.g. sister).
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(US, derogatory, offensive) A child born to noncitizen parents in the United States or another country that grants birthright citizenship (cf. jus soli), and who, as a citizen, can provide immigration benefits to relatives.
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One who is married to someone whose age is unusually different to their own.
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(informal) A child who does not know their father.
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(vulgar, obsolete) A bastard; someone born out of wedlock.
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(humorous, rare) That has or have a daughter or daughters, especially when unwanted.
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A child ascribed to the domain of its birth, or to the ruler of it.
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(slang) An illegitimate child; a child of an unknown or unmarried father.
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An adoption where the identity of the biological parents is kept as a secret from the child and their adoptive parents.
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(neologism, euphemistic) Romantic or sexual love between family members; consensual adult incest.
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Obsolete spelling of daughter [One’s female offspring.]
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The situation where a long-lost distant relative arrives at the hospital where their dying elderly relative is being treated, and challenges the care the patient is receiving as inadequate; it is ascribed to guilt and denial.
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The condition of being a daughter.
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The state or quality of being a daughter.
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(archaic) A distant relation.
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marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than one's own as required by custom or law
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The first child to be born to a parent or family.
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A claimed phenomenon of sexual attraction between relatives and family members who were not raised together.
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the state or quality of being a specified female person
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The quality of being husbandly.
adj
Of inferior parentage.
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Born to unmarried parents.
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(Jamaica) A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that they are not the child’s biological father.
n
(archaic) Family, lineage.
n
the quality or state of being a lady or ladylike.
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Alternative form of lastborn [The youngest child of a family.]
adj
(figuratively) Younger than anyone else in a group.
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The situation in China where, because of the one-child policy, children of modern upper-class and wealthier Chinese families receive excessive attention from their parents and grandparents.
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A woman's virginity or maidenhead.
adj
Suitable for, or befitting a maiden; gentle; modest; pure.
adj
Born as the middle child to a parent or family.
adj
(derogatory, now rare) Of low birth, illegitimate.
adj
Having or involving only one parent.
adj
Related genetically but not legally to one's father; born out of wedlock, illegitimate.
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An illegitimate child, a child born to unmarried parents.
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(slang) A person, especially a celebrity, whose success in an occupation or field is attributed to their parent's influence or support.
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The child born after the previous one.
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A person who is not an adoptee
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(Latinate) A child of unknown parentage; an orphan.
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(slang, most often plural) One's parents.
adj
Having the negative traits of a stereotypical elderly woman: peevish, superstitious, prim and proper, etc.
adv
In the manner or style of an old woman.
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(historical) A policy of population control in China, whereby a married couple is allowed only one child.
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(rare) A singleton; maverick; a single or only child.
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A person who has no siblings.
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A sole male child among multiple siblings.
adj
Being the only child of one’s parent (especially one’s father)
adj
Born as the only child in a family, flock, or the like.
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The situation in which neglected children are made to perform parentlike duties in their household.
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A child whose father has died.
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The second child to be born to a parent or family.
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Synonym of only child (one who has no siblings).
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A man raising a child on his own without a spouse or partner.
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A woman raising a child on her own without a spouse or partner.
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A child or animal that is born singly, not as a twin or other multiple birth.
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The son of unmarried parents, an illegitimate child, a bastard.
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(obsolete) A child conceived before a wedding and born afterwards.
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(sometimes derogatory) A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.
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(religion) The act of a vicar, or other beneficiary, who holds two benefices, the one depending on the collation of the other.
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(obsolete) A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother.
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(archaic) A child born through stirpiculture.
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An exceptionally gifted child
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Thatcher, children.
adj
Born as the third child to parent or family.
adj
(of distant cousins) Separated by three generations of descent
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(fantasy) A person of legitimate birth.
v
To cause someone to be fatherless.
adj
(rare, formal) only begotten; being an only child
adj
Born of the same mother but of a different father.
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(New Zealand, countable) A child adopted under this system.
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The female of a pair of mated animals.
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The state or condition of being a woman.
adj
(rare, humorous) Single; unmarried or celibate.
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