Son

/sʌn/ · noun

Meaning

One's male offspring..

Definitions by Sense

1. One's male offspring.
2. A male adopted person in relation to his adoptive parents.
3. 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.
4. A male person considered to have been significantly shaped by social conflict.
5. A person regarded as the product of some place.
6. A familiar address to a male person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
7. (UK, New York City, colloquial) An informal address to a friend or person of equal authority.
8. (computing) The current version of a file, derived from the preceding father file.

Example Sentences

Before the birth of the man's child, he said: "I want a son, not a daughter."

From what conſummate vertue I have choſe / This perfect Man, by merit call'd my Son,

“We are pleased that LSST has now been named the Vera C. Rubin Observatory,” said Rubin’s sons Allan Rubin, David Rubin, and Karl Rubin in a statement.

Cristiano Ronaldo’s eldest son has earned his first call-up for the Portugal Under-15 national squad, the team announced on Tuesday.

Eli called Samuel his son. Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift.

He was a son of the mafia system.

I hold it to be true, that the people are the sons of the soil; and we are only their instruments here.

Son, can't you see that she's just a little girl?

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Word Forms

• sons
• sonne
• sonning
• sonned

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