"pedophile" meaning in English

See pedophile in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈpiː.dəˌfaɪl/ [UK], /ˈpɛ.dəˌfaɪl/ [Canada, US], /ˈpɛ.doʊˌfaɪl/ [Canada, US], /ˈpe.dəˌfɑel/ [General-Australian], /ˈpɛ.dəʉˌfɑel/ [General-Australian] Audio: en-uk-paedophile.ogg Forms: pedophiles [plural]
enPR: pēd'-ə-fīl' [UK], pĕd'-ə-fīl' [Canada, US], pĕd'-ə-fīl' [General-Australian] Etymology: From pedo- (“child”) + -phile, after Ancient Greek παιδοφῐ́λης (paidophílēs) (from παῖς (paîs, “boy, child”) + φιλέω (philéō, “I love”)). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*peh₂w-}}, {{confix|en|pedo|phile|id1=child|t1=child}} pedo- (“child”) + -phile, {{der|en|grc|παιδοφῐ́λης}} Ancient Greek παιδοφῐ́λης (paidophílēs), {{com|grc|παῖς|φιλέω|nocat=1|t1=boy, child|t2=I love}} παῖς (paîs, “boy, child”) + φιλέω (philéō, “I love”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} pedophile (plural pedophiles)
  1. (psychiatry, sexology) A person aged 16 or older who is mostly or only sexually attracted toward prepubescent children. Tags: US Categories (topical): Psychiatry, Sexology, Pedophilia
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  2. (by extension, common use) An adult who is sexually attracted to or engages in sexual acts with a child. Tags: US, broadly Translations (an adult who is sexually attracted to children): pedofil [masculine] (Albanian), մանկապիղծ (mankapiġc) (Armenian), pedofil (Azerbaijani), педафі́л (pjedafíl) [masculine] (Belarusian), педафі́лка (pjedafílka) [feminine] (Belarusian), педофи́л (pedofíl) [masculine] (Bulgarian), педофи́лка (pedofílka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 戀童癖患者 (Chinese Cantonese), 恋童癖患者 (lyun² tung⁴ pik¹ waan⁶ ze²) (Chinese Cantonese), 金魚佬 (Chinese Cantonese), 金鱼佬 (gam¹ jyu⁴ lou²) [slang] (Chinese Cantonese), 戀童癖患者 (Chinese Mandarin), 恋童癖患者 (liàntóngpǐ huànzhě) (Chinese Mandarin), pedofil [masculine] (Czech), pædofil [common-gender] (Danish), pedofiel [masculine] (Dutch), pedofilo (Esperanto), pedofiil (Estonian), pedofiili (Finnish), pédophile [feminine, masculine] (French), pedófilo [masculine] (Galician), pedófila [feminine] (Galician), პედოფილი (ṗedopili) (Georgian), Pädophiler [masculine] (German), Pädophile [feminine] (German), παιδεραστής (paiderastís) [masculine] (Greek), παιδοφῐ́λης (paidophílēs) [masculine] (Greek), פֶּדוֹפִיל (pedofíl) [masculine] (Hebrew), pedofil (Hungarian), barnaníðingur [masculine] (Icelandic), péidifileach [masculine] (Irish), pedofilo [masculine] (Italian), 小児性愛者 (shōniseiaisha) (alt: しょうにせいあいしゃ) (Japanese), 小児愛者 (shōniaisha) (alt: しょうにあいしゃ) (Japanese), 幼児性愛者 (yōjiseiaisha) (alt: ようじせいあいしゃ) (Japanese), ロリコン (rorikon) [slang] (Japanese), педофил (pedofil) (Kazakh), 소아 성애자 (soa seong'aeja) (alt: 小兒性愛者) (Korean), педофил (pedofil) (Kyrgyz), pedofils [masculine] (Latvian), pedofilas [masculine] (Lithuanian), педофи́л (pedofíl) [masculine] (Macedonian), педофи́лка (pedofílka) [feminine] (Macedonian), pedofil [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), pedofil [masculine] (Polish), pedófilo [masculine] (Portuguese), pedófila [feminine] (Portuguese), pedofil [masculine] (Romanian), pedofilă [feminine] (Romanian), педофи́л (pedofíl) [masculine] (Russian), педофи́лка (pedofílka) [feminine] (Russian), педо̀фӣл [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), педофилка [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), pedòfīl [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), pedofilka [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), pitòfilu [masculine] (Sicilian), pedofil [masculine] (Slovak), pedofil [masculine] (Slovene), pedófilo [masculine] (Spanish), pedófila [feminine] (Spanish), pedofil [common-gender] (Swedish), peddo [colloquial, derogatory, neuter] (Swedish), sübyancı (Turkish), pedofil (Turkish), педофі́л (pedofíl) [masculine] (Ukrainian), педофі́лка (pedofílka) [feminine] (Ukrainian), pedofil (Uzbek), người ái nhi (Vietnamese), margougneu d’ efant [masculine] (Walloon)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: childlover [euphemistic], paedophile [British], pædophile [dated] Hyponyms: mysoped (english: a sadistic pedophile), korephile, nepiophile Derived forms: paedophilophile [humorous], PDF file, pedophile ring, pedophilish, Pedowood, predophile, reverse pedophile Related terms: ephebophile, hebephile, pederast, paederast, pedophilia, paedophilia, pedophilic, paedophilic, pedosexual, pedosexuality

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "_dis": "36 64",
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        {
          "_dis": "25 75",
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        {
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "20 80",
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        },
        {
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          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "pedofil"
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          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
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          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
          "word": "pedofil"
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          "roman": "pjedafíl",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "педафі́л"
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          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "педафі́лка"
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        {
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          "roman": "pedofíl",
          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "педофи́л"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "39 61",
          "code": "bg",
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          "roman": "pedofílka",
          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "педофи́лка"
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        {
          "_dis1": "39 61",
          "code": "yue",
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          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
          "word": "戀童癖患者"
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          "_dis1": "39 61",
          "code": "yue",
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          "roman": "lyun² tung⁴ pik¹ waan⁶ ze²",
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          "word": "恋童癖患者"
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          "code": "yue",
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          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
          "word": "金魚佬"
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          "_dis1": "39 61",
          "code": "yue",
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          "roman": "gam¹ jyu⁴ lou²",
          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
          "tags": [
            "slang"
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          "word": "金鱼佬"
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          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
          "word": "戀童癖患者"
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        {
          "_dis1": "39 61",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "liàntóngpǐ huànzhě",
          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
          "word": "恋童癖患者"
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          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
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          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
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          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
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          "_dis1": "39 61",
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          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
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            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pédophile"
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          "_dis1": "39 61",
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          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
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          "word": "პედოფილი"
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          "code": "de",
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          "word": "Pädophiler"
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          "_dis1": "39 61",
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            "feminine"
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          "roman": "paiderastís",
          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "παιδεραστής"
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          "roman": "paidophílēs",
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          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "παιδοφῐ́λης"
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          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "פֶּדוֹפִיל"
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          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
          "word": "pedofil"
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          "_dis1": "39 61",
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          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "barnaníðingur"
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          "_dis1": "39 61",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "péidifileach"
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        {
          "_dis1": "39 61",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pedofilo"
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          "_dis1": "39 61",
          "alt": "しょうにせいあいしゃ",
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          "roman": "shōniseiaisha",
          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
          "word": "小児性愛者"
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        {
          "_dis1": "39 61",
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          "roman": "shōniaisha",
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          "_dis1": "39 61",
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          "roman": "rorikon",
          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
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          "word": "ロリコン"
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          "_dis1": "39 61",
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          "roman": "pedofil",
          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
          "word": "педофил"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "39 61",
          "alt": "小兒性愛者",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "soa seong'aeja",
          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
          "word": "소아 성애자"
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          "word": "педофил"
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          "code": "lv",
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          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
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          "word": "pedofils"
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          "word": "pedofilas"
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          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
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          "word": "педофи́л"
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        {
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          "word": "педофи́лка"
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          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "pedofil"
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          "_dis1": "39 61",
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          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pedofil"
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          "_dis1": "39 61",
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          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pedófilo"
        },
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          "_dis1": "39 61",
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          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "pedófila"
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          "_dis1": "39 61",
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          "word": "pedofilă"
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        {
          "_dis1": "39 61",
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          "roman": "pedofíl",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "педофи́л"
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          "word": "педо̀фӣл"
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          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
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            "Roman",
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        {
          "_dis1": "39 61",
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          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
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          "word": "педофі́л"
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          "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
          "word": "người ái nhi"
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "pedofil"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "derogatory",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "peddo"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
      "word": "sübyancı"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
      "word": "pedofil"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "pedofíl",
      "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "педофі́л"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "pedofílka",
      "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "педофі́лка"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
      "word": "pedofil"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
      "word": "người ái nhi"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "an adult who is sexually attracted to children",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "margougneu d’ efant"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "pedophile"
  ],
  "word": "pedophile"
}

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