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noun

a male child or person in relation to his parents.

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

any male descendant: a son of the Aztecs.

a son-in-law.

a person related as if by ties of sonship.

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

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

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

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English sone, Old English sunu; cognate with Dutch zoon, German Sohn, Old Norse sunr, sonr, Gothic sunus, Lithuanian sūnùs, Sanskrit sūnus; akin to Greek huiós

Related forms

son·less, adjective

son·like, adjective

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.

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Example Sentences

My son is one and he really cares about getting it right.

For millions of couples, the answer is: abort the daughter, try for a son.

When my son was little, nobody every believed that he was allergic to carrots, etc.

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My son is one and he really cares about getting it right.

For millions of couples, the answer is: abort the daughter, try for a son.

When my son was little, nobody every believed that he was allergic to carrots, etc.

Needless to say, we've gotten better at making our son pick up his toys.

And, of course, father and son both own their own businesses.

Take the one about the mother who asked the dean to make sure her son was wearing his sweater.

We have all wood floors in our home and my daughter has severe asthma and my son is autistic and has no asthma.

He asked his son to walk with him from the house to the barn.

My son thought the machine was pretty neat, and was a great sport about the whole thing.

I'll always be in debt with her she gave birth to my son for the second time.

She's far more likely to climb a tree or play kickball in the street than my son is.

Twice married, he has one five-year-old son and three grown daughters.

It comes from trying to show the wonders of nature to my own young son.

My son is not allowed to touch it and is on the honor role in middle school.

Months after their son died on a baseball field, his parents are still trying to untangle what caused his heart to suddenly stop.

Here is the situation--several years ago my older son was in elementary school.

Your correspondent saw a boy no bigger than his three-year-old son struggling under a half-sack of ore.

Los vampiros son muy pequeños, casi del tamaño de un ratón.

He contributed generously that night, a year before his own son would be diagnosed with the disease.

Soon they found themselves with a daughter and a son and barely enough income to make ends meet.

Precisamente como no son delicados para elegir en dónde viven, tampoco son melindrosos con lo que comen.

In her culture it is probably better to have a son than a daughter.

One of my favorite things to do with my son is seek out new and odd foods to try at home.

My infant son goes to a licensed home-based day care.

Holding hands and watched by their son and daughter, they drank a lethal dose of barbiturates and died.

Pol and son get their hands really really really dirty while checking on a farmer's cows.

The son will take care of the parents while the daughter goes to another family.

He has really inspired my son who wants to major in math when he goes to college.

At the reception desk, a mother pleads with staff to admit her son.

Estas son estructuras pedregosas que se encuentran el agua tibia de océano.

My wonderful son took his own life almost five years while under the influence of alcohol.

My son was not a national merit finalist but was a national merit commended student.

Estas criaturas blandas de colores muy vivos son maestros de su comida.

My son use to sleep walk and have night terrors as a child.

Juntos, los cuatro océanos son dos veces más grande que la tierra seca.

For example when your son is accused of raping a woman and there is evidence etc but still you refuse to accept the fact.

Las estrellas son bolas gigantescas de gases calientes.

Algunos son reflejos condicionados por efectos traumáticos.

Hay otros innumerables pedacitos de basura que son más pequeños.

My son can immediately tell the day if any date of any year.

Los dedos de la mano y los del pie son un tipo de adaptación.

Eso es porque muchas de ellas son demasiado pequeñas para verse con el ojo desnudo.

My son needs an outlet that our incomes can't support.

Otras, son casi claras, o transparentes y por eso no puedes verlas a estas tampoco.

She and my son have never followed trends and my son thinks that cell phones are pretentious and rude.

Las rayas son peces, con un parentesco muy cercano a los tiburones.

Los arrecifes de coral son los cimientos de los ecosistemas marinos, y estan en peligro.

Los insectos son buenos para la salud por muchas otras razones también.

But when he fell down he was no frog but a king's son with beautiful, kind eyes.

Pero a pesar de su porte, muchos de ellos no son tan peligrosos.

Son bastante grandes para poder seguirles la pista.

Las tormentas eléctricas son chaparrones con relámpagos y truenos que ocurren por to do el mundo.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

variant of soni- before a vowel: sonance.

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World English Dictionary

son (sʌn)

—n
1.	a male offspring; a boy or man in relation to his parents
2.	a male descendant
3.	(often capital) a familiar term of address for a boy or man
4.	a male from a certain country, place, etc, or one closely connected with a certain environment: a son of the circus; a son of the manse

Related: filial

[Old English sunu; related to Old Norse sunr, Gothic sunus, Old High German sunu, Lithuanian sūnus, Sanskrit sūnu]

'sonless

—*adj*

'sonlike

—*adj*

Son (sʌn)

—n
	Christianity the second person of the Trinity, Jesus Christ

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Word Origin & History

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

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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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Idioms & Phrases

son

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

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favorite son

like father, like son

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"The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you."

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