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son

  [suhn]
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–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

Related forms:
sonless, adjective
sonlike, adjective

son-

 
var. of soni- before a vowel: sonance.

soni-

 
a combining form meaning “sound,” used in the formation of compound words: soniferous.
Also, son-, sono-.

Origin:
< L soni-, comb. form of sonus sound 1
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son   (sŭn)   
n.  

  1. One's male child.

  2. A male descendant.

  3. A man considered as if in a relationship of child to parent: a son of the soil.

  4. One personified or regarded as a male descendant.

  5. Used as a familiar form of address for a young man.

  6. Son Christianity The second person of the Trinity.


[Middle English, from Old English sunu; see seuə-1 in Indo-European roots.]
son'ly adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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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 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Idioms & Phrases

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. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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