son
IPA: sˈʌn
noun
- One's male offspring.
- A male adopted person in relation to his adoptive parents.
- A male person who has such a close relationship with an older or otherwise more authoritative person that he can be regarded as a son of the other person.
- A male person considered to have been significantly shaped by social conflict.
- A person regarded as the product of some place.
- A familiar address to a male person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
- (UK, colloquial) An informal address to a friend or person of equal authority.
- (computing) The current version of a file, derived from the preceding father file.
- (music) Son cubano, a genre of music and dance blending Spanish and African elements that originated in Cuba during the late 19th century.
- (Christianity) one of the three persons of the Trinity, believed to have become incarnated as Jesus Christ
- A surname.
- Initialism of supraoptic nucleus.
- Abbreviation of Sonora. (state of Mexico) [A state of Mexico.]
verb
- (transitive) To produce (i.e. bear, father, beget) a son.
- (transitive) To address (someone) as "son".
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Examples of "son" in Sentences
- The mother pampered her sons.
- The mother gave birth to her son.
- The mother never upbraided her son.
- Max Goof, is the son and only child of Goofy.
- His son was a child of privilege, not privation.
- The mother was worried about her son who strayed.
- She is the gentle mother of the sons of this land.
- This child is the son of the magic teacher Orchid.
- Number 17th son was based on the seniority of the mother.
- Dong Qichang was the son of a teacher and somewhat precocious as a child.
- None but a child could become a son; the idea is -- a spiritual coming of age; _only when the child is a man is he really and fully a son_.
- It's kep 'by a widder woman whose on'y son -- _red-'aired son_ -- went to sea twenty-three years ago, at the age o' fourteen, an 'was never' eard of arterwards.
- But if she was childless, the next of kin of her husband must beget one son by her; he did not _marry_ her, and his connection with her _ceased on the birth of a son_.
- The duties of a father are not the same as those of a son; is the word therefore wholly equivocal when we speak of one person as a _good father_, and another as a _good son_?
- Granting _alleyn_ to be rightly put for alone, no ancient writer, I apprehend, ever used such a phrase as this; any more than we should now say -- _my son alone_ for _my only son_.
- 'The Angel of the Lord said unto Abraham, Because thou hast done this thing, and hast not _withheld_ thy son, _thine only son_, from Me, therefore blessing I will bless thee,' etc.
- During the celebrated Peninsular campaign, as a lady, whose son, a French officer in Spain, was seated in her room, she was astonished to perceive the folding doors at the bottom of the apartment slowly open, and disclose to her eyes, _her son_.
- Gerock (p. 20) thinks that Zacharias 'prayer was not for a son of his own, but for an adopted son as, for instance, the future husband of Mary who might become his heir, and hence accounts for his surprise and unbelief at the announcement of John.
- "Ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto sons, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him; for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and _scourgeth every son_ whom he receiveth."
- He copied this stone on 13th September 1855, noting in his diary that Henrietta sketched the church while he copied and translated the inscription which ran as follows -- _Thorleifr Nitki raised this Cross to Fiak, son of his brother's son_, the date being 1084 or 1194 A.D. CHAPTER XXVIII