son

Noun

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. (New-York-City, UK, colloquial) An informal address to a friend or person of equal authority.
8. The current version of a file, derived from the preceding father file.

Verb

1. (transitive) To produce (i.e. bear, father, beget) a son.
2. (transitive) To address (someone) as "son".

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sʌn/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: sonn

Inherited from Old English: sunu

Inherited from Middle English: sonen

In summary

From Middle English sonn, sone, sun, sune, from Old English sunu (“son”), from Proto-West Germanic *sunu, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewH- (“to bear; give birth”).

Synonyms

child

🧒

boy

👦

daughter

offspring

male child

kid

🧒

nephew

children

man

👨

infant

my son

little boy

brother’s son

my

father

👨‍👦

male offspring

tot

oneself

daughter-in-law

husband

🤵

junior

lad

laddie

lineage

male

♂️

native

nestling

niece

nipper

prince

🤴

progeny

puppy

son-in-law

sonny

stepchild

stepdaughter

stepson

stripling

tad

teenager

tiddler

twins

tyke

ultimate

ward

womb

young

young man

eldest son

evil spirits

Translations

fils

hijo

Sohn

figlio

zoon

filho

syn

filius

fill

γιος

oğul

filh

natus

🐣

figliolo

Kind

🧒

Sentences

She also has an older son from an earlier marriage .

His wife and son had minor injuries .

That is an antelope , my son .

Your son went to serve at a distant place , and became a centurion .

'And this is what your son said , ' the angel told the man .

Henri's patriline is the line from which he is descended father to son .