Pedophile Definition

pĕdə-fīl, pēdə-
pedophiles
noun
A person with pedophilia.
American Heritage Medicine
An adult who has sexual desire for children.
Webster's New World
An adult who is sexually attracted to children. [from 20th c.]
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Other Word Forms of Pedophile

Noun

Singular:
pedophile
Plural:
pedophiles

Origin of Pedophile

  • From pedo- +"Ž -phile, after Ancient Greek παιδόφιλος (paidophilos) (from παῖς (pais, “boy, child") and φιλέω (phileō, “I love")).

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Pedophile Sentence Examples

  • The only other thing she could think of was that he was a pedophile.

  • The risk of chatting with a "teen" who is actually an adult pedophile is real possibility.

  • Our successes consisted of the location of a lost girl, two more runaways, and the identification of a pedophile who attempted to abduct a young boy.

  • An online predator may be a pedophile writing to a teen from their home or even an inmate from a prison.

  • In October 1996 he lambasted Belgium 's civic institutions for failing to protect the country 's children in the wake of a pedophile scandal.

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Words Starting With

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