son
- 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.
- 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.
Origin of son
son-
- variant of soni- before a vowel: sonance.
Examples from the Web for son
Contemporary Examples
“They know there are drug spots,” said Wanda Williams, who was out for a walk with her son.
Jennie kept his parliamentary vestments for her son, apparently instilling in Winston the sense that he would be a leader.
Among the other graduates was Officer Kevin Lynch, brother and son of police officers.
He stood holding his 21-month-old son, Jamison, his wife, Kelly, at his side.
His son, Yaqoob Bizenjo, served as a member of the National Assembly until 2013.
Historical Examples
The elder Milbrey, too, had met her at his son's suggestion.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
Pericles went to seek his son, and found him reclining on the couch where he had left him.
PhilotheaLydia Maria Child
The Milbreys, father and son, came up and greeted the group on the piazza.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
We met the son and the old man at one of their mines yesterday.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
Pericles had not visited his son since his return to perfect consciousness.
PhilotheaLydia Maria Child
son
- 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
Word Origin
Son
- Christianity the second person of the Trinity, Jesus Christ
Word Origin and History for 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").
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