son

Meaning

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. (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.

child

🧒

male child

brother’s son

male offspring

eldest son

evil spirits

Fry

the last

tike

first born son

second born son

epithet of Buddha

kaṁsa

king of the Solar race

he was the son

sister’s son

adopted child

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/sʌn/

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

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