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单词 great son
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great son
great son n. chiefly South African the eldest son of an African chief or king and his (principal) wife; the heir apparent to the chieftainship.
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1831 W. B. Boyce Jrnl. 15 Oct. in A. Steedman Wanderings S. Afr. (1835) II. 288 A male child has been born to Faku lately, which, from the rank of its mother, is the great son or heir of its father.
1907 W. C. Scully By Veldt & Kopje 254 The Chief's ‘Great Son’ was to be made a man at the time, and my father wanted me to be one of his blood-brothers.
2003 P. M. Gunnar Here I am, Lord, send Me iii. 58 The ‘Great Son’ of a chief, the first son of his father's ‘Great Wife’ and the legal inheritor of the chief's power, was often a child at his father's death.
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