Definitions for Son

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Son son

Spelling: [suhn]

IPA: /sʌn/

Son is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 10 anagrams from letters in Son (nos).

Definitions for Son

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:
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.:
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 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

Examples for Son

Jennie kept his parliamentary vestments for her son, apparently instilling in Winston the sense that he would be a leader.

“They know there are drug spots,” said Wanda Williams, who was out for a walk with her son.

The Milbreys, father and son, came up and greeted the group on the piazza.

We met the son and the old man at one of their mines yesterday.

His son, Yaqoob Bizenjo, served as a member of the National Assembly until 2013.

Among the other graduates was Officer Kevin Lynch, brother and son of police officers.

The elder Milbrey, too, had met her at his son's suggestion.

He stood holding his 21-month-old son, Jamison, his wife, Kelly, at his side.

Here he had prestige because he was the son of Daniel Bines, organiser and man of affairs.

He has obtained from his son a solemn promise never to speak to me of marriage.