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son

[ suhn ]
/ sʌn /
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RELATED WORDS

boy, heir, offspring, descendant, relative, sibling, child, dependent, junior, scion, lad, male, disciple, native, fils, ben

Nearby words

  1. somoza debayle,
  2. somoza debayle, anastasio,
  3. somoza debayle, luis,
  4. somoza, anastasio,
  5. somy,
  6. son et lumière,
  7. son of a bitch,
  8. son of a gun,
  9. son of adam,
  10. son of god

Origin of son

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 formsson·less, adjectiveson·like, adjective

Definition for son (2 of 2)

son-

variant of soni- before a vowel: sonance.
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British Dictionary definitions for son (1 of 2)

son

/ (sʌn) /

noun

a male offspring; a boy or man in relation to his parents
a male descendant
(often capital) a familiar term of address for a boy or man
a male from a certain country, place, etc, or one closely connected with a certain environmenta son of the circus; a son of the manse
Related formsRelated adjective: filial
Derived Formssonless, adjectivesonlike, adjective

Word Origin for son

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

British Dictionary definitions for son (2 of 2)

Son

/ (sʌn) /

noun

Christianity the second person of the Trinity, Jesus Christ
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Word Origin and History for son

son

n.

Old English sunu "son, descendant," from Proto-Germanic *sunuz (cf. Old Saxon and Old Frisian sunu, Old Norse sonr, Danish søn, Swedish son, Middle Dutch sone, Dutch zoon, Old High German sunu, German Sohn, Gothic sunus "son").

The Germanic words are from PIE *su(e)-nu- "son" (cf. Sanskrit sunus, Greek huios, Avestan hunush, Armenian ustr, Lithuanian sunus, Old Church Slavonic synu, Russian and Polish syn "son"), a derived noun from root *seue- (1) "to give birth" (cf. Sanskrit sauti "gives birth," Old Irish suth "birth, offspring"). Son of _____ as the title of a sequel to a book or movie is recorded from 1929 ("Son of Tarzan").

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper

Idioms and Phrases with son

son

In addition to the idiom beginning with son

  • song and dance
  • son of a bitch

also see:

  • favorite son
  • like father, like son
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