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son

–noun

1.	a male child or person in relation to his parents.

2.	a male child or person adopted as a son; a person in the legal position of a son.

3.	any male descendant: a son of the Aztecs.

4.	a son-in-law.

5.	a person related as if by ties of sonship.

6.	a male person looked upon as the product or result of particular agencies, forces, influences, etc.: a true son of the soil.

7.	a familiar term of address to a man or boy from an older person, an ecclesiastic, etc.

8.	the Son, the second person of the Trinity; Jesus Christ.

[Origin: bef. 900; ME sone, OE sunu; c. D zoon, G Sohn, ON sunr, sonr, Goth sunus, Lith sūnùs, Skt sūnus; akin to Gk huiós

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—Related forms

sonless, adjective

sonlike, adjective

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n.

One's male child.
A male descendant.
A man considered as if in a relationship of child to parent: a son of the soil.
One personified or regarded as a male descendant.
Used as a familiar form of address for a young man.
Son Christianity The second person of the Trinity.

[Middle English, from Old English sunu; see seuə-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

son'ly adj.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
son

O.E. sunu "son," from P.Gmc. *sunuz (cf. O.S., O.Fris. sunu, O.N. sonr, Dan. søn, Swed. son, M.Du. sone, Du. zoon, O.H.G. sunu, Ger. Sohn, Goth. sunus "son"), from PIE *sunu-/*sunyu- (cf. Skt. sunus, Gk. huios, Avestan hunush, Armenian ustr, Lith. sunus, O.C.S. synu, Rus., Pol. syn "son"), from root *su- "to give birth" (cf. Skt. sauti "gives birth," O.Ir. suth "birth, offspring"). Sonny as a familiar form of address to one younger or inferior is from 1870. Son of _____ as the title of a sequel to a book or movie is recorded from 1929.

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son
noun
1.	a male human offspring; "their son became a famous judge"; "his boy is taller than he is" [ant: daughter]
2.	the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus)

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son

In addition to the idiom beginning with son, also see favorite son; like father, like son.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.

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son [san] noun

a male child (when spoken of in relation to his parents)
Example: He is the son of the manager.

Arabic:	إبْن
Chinese (Simplified):	儿子
Chinese (Traditional):	兒子
Czech:	syn
Danish:	søn
Dutch:	zoon
Estonian:	poeg
Finnish:	poika
French:	fils
German:	der Sohn
Greek:	γιος
Hungarian:	vkinek a fia
Icelandic:	sonur
Indonesian:	anak laki-laki
Italian:	figlio

Japanese:	息子
Korean:	아들
Latvian:	dēls
Lithuanian:	sūnus
Norwegian:	sønn
Polish:	syn
Portuguese (Brazil):	filho
Portuguese (Portugal):	filho
Romanian:	fiu
Russian:	сын
Slovak:	syn
Slovenian:	sin
Spanish:	hijo
Swedish:	son
Turkish:	erkek çocuk, oğul

See also: son-in-law

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Son

Son\, n. [OE. sone, sune, AS. sunu; akin to D. zoon, OS., OFries., & OHG. sunu, G. sohn, Icel. sonr, Sw. son, Dan. s["o]n, Goth. sunus, Lith. sunus, Russ. suin', Skr. s[=u]nu (from s[=u] to beget, to bear), and Gr. ? son. [root]293. Cf. Sow, n.]

1. A male child; the male issue, or offspring, of a parent, father or mother.

Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son. --Gen. xxi. 2.

2. A male descendant, however distant; hence, in the plural, descendants in general.

I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings. --Isa. xix. 11.

I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. --Mal. iii. 6.

3. Any young male person spoken of as a child; an adopted male child; a pupil, ward, or any other male dependent.

The child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. --Ex. ii. 10.

Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift. --Shak.

4. A native or inhabitant of some specified place; as, sons of Albion; sons of New England.

5. The produce of anything.

Earth's tall sons, the cedar, oak, and pine. --Blackmore.

6. (Commonly with the def. article) Jesus Christ, the Savior; -- called the Son of God, and the Son of man.

We . . . do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. --1 John iv. 14.

Who gave His Son sure all has given. --Keble.

Note: The expressions son of pride, sons of light, son of Belial, are Hebraisms, which denote persons possessing the qualitites of pride, of light, or of Belial, as children inherit the qualities of their ancestors.

Sons of the prophets. See School of the prophets, under Prophet.

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