Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who has no siblings. 2 A person raised as the sole child in a household.
Wikipedia
An only child is a person who does not have any siblings, neither biological nor adopted.
Only Child may also refer to:
- Only Child (novel), a novel by Jack Ketchum
- Only Child (musician), English DJ and musician
Only Child is DJ and musician, Justin Crawford from Manchester, England. He was formerly a member of the English band New Fast Automatic Daffodils.
Usage examples of "only child".
A younger son, called Hugo, betrothed at the age of four to the infant daughter and only child of the Count of Lavas, called Lavastina.
His parents, by the way, had separated when he was at his public school and, though he was an only child, had not bothered with him once he was safe at Oxford with his scholarship and a small allowance to see him through.
The pain of an only child losing his mother to a car crash ten years before, when they lived near Wichita, Kansas, had been devastating, but his father's death had been even worse.