sonson /sʌn/ ●●● S1 W1 noun 
Her son Sean was born in 1983. They have three sons and a daughter. In those days, the property went to the eldest son. their youngest son, Georgeson of the son of a poor farmer → like father like son at father1(7)2[singular] spoken used by an older person as a way to address a boy or young man: What’s your name, son?3the Son Jesus Christ, the second member of the group from the Christian religion that also includes the Father and the Holy Spirit4[countable] written a man, especially a famous man, from a particular place or country: Frank Sinatra, New Jersey’s most famous son5my son used by a priest to address a man or boy → favourite son at favourite1(2)
WORD ORIGINson
Origin:
Old English sunuEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Her son used to work in Texas.
- members of the Sons of Italy
- Our son Jamie is five years old.
- The family business has now been taken over by Anderson's eldest son.
- We have two teenage sons.
- She so much wanted to avoid another pitched battle with her son.
- So Demeter nursed Demophoon, the son that Metaneira had borne to wise Celeus.
- Sophie will marry one day, and perhaps she will send her sons to you.
- The figures of two parents stooped over their 13-year-old son who would die tomorrow.
Longman Language Activatorsomeone's son or daughter
someone's son or daughter, of any age: · She named her first child Katrin.· One of her children lives in Australia now.· The house seems very quiet now that all the children have left home.an only child (=a child that has no brothers or sisters): · Alexandra was an only child and the centre of her mother's world.
informal someone's son or daughter - use this about children aged up to 14 or 15: · All I ever wanted was to get married and have kids.· Could you look after the kids this evening?
someone's male child: · We have two teenage sons.· Her son used to work in Texas.· The family business has now been taken over by Anderson's eldest son.
someone's female child: · Our youngest daughter is getting married next month.· My aunt has five daughters and three sons.· In traditional societies, parents were often reluctant to send their daughters to school.
spoken someone's young son or daughter: · Paula had to go home - her little girl's sick.· "How old's your little boy?" "He's three."
a person's or animal's baby or babies - used humorously or in formal contexts about someone's children: somebody's offspring: · Parents with the disease are likely to pass it on to their offspring.· Hardly a day goes by without Mrs Molt or one of her offspring calling around to borrow something.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES His elder son Liam became a lawyer. My eldest daughter is 17.
· We’d like a baby brother or sister for Ben.
His elder son Liam became a lawyer. My eldest daughter is 17. (=someone who will be your wife, husband, son-in-law etc)
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· One was to her elder son Gamal, who was then in Florida.· Their elder son, Nicky, had disappeared on his motorcycle in a cloud of dust and anger.· They always remind me of those twins from that cartoonist my elder son liked.· The elder son of the Rev.· Perhaps this was something he had in common with his elder son.· Polyneices, the elder son, did the same.· Eventually a letter arrived from London in response to Moran's exasperated inquiries about his elder son.· Well, two days later Mr McNab and his elder son called at my home.
· May 1910, and it was necessary for his eldest son to become King George V, in his succession.· Frank, the eldest son, is twelve, old enough to wear a jacket and tie.· If our eldest son is awake then he may come down and have breakfast with us.· The eldest son of my host was missing an ear.· Emmanuel Basota has lost his eldest son, Alex.· This he usually did, and often it was his eldest son.· He was aware his eldest son, the sensitive William, could be the biggest loser.
· He is a classic modern tough guy as well as being an Old Testament prodigal son.· Her husband and two-year-old son moved to Seattle with her.· Our older son and his wife came to live with us for four months, between University and his first job.· A single father, whose 9-year-old son lives with him part time, Wait said he is a self-taught cook.· The older two sons took everything they could, leaving the youngest son with just a cat.· Evan Bayh of Indiana, 40-year-old son of former Sen.· Captains and their twelve year old sons.
· She loved me all right and I was her only son, but oh, what a struggle she had to show ii.· Woolgar was a wealthy Sussex businessman whose only son was the priest at St Joseph's in Banfield.· He lost his only son Jay, 26, in an air crash and his first wife Connie drowned in Antigua.· Services to giving his only son more grief than any mortal should have to bear.· Elsewhere an only son and brother is setting out into the great world to win a name and place.· They did not often do so, and the women had no recorded daughters, only sons.· It seems to arise out of overwhelming compassion for the poor widow who was in the process of burying her only son.· Among these was definitely a call to her only son Gamal, who was then in Florida.
· She added: sometimes my young son wants to cross the road when it s dangerous.· Clotilde quickly adopted his three chil-dren, which angered Clotaire, her youngest son.· The father, black beard full of snow shards, watched the youngest son, watched him work.· She is also deeply worried their beloved young son Thomas Jefferson, four, will suffer from the split.· This produced differential status between older and younger sons and between sons and daughters.· His youngest son looked exactly like the portrait.
NOUN· She had been served four years of a life sentence for the murder of her baby son.· But when their baby son was born, they forgot to add the boy as a beneficiary.· She watched Naseem as the older woman fed her baby son.· But so cool is the blue minimalist card that one style magazine editor aspired to name his baby son Sony.· My daughter and son-in-law have tried to have their baby son christened in a local church.· The deal was completed in a flat near the Palace ... and Lucy even took her baby son Matthew along.· He had met her husband, Vos, a young clergyman, and seen their baby son.
VERB· Niklaus Andreas Lauda was born the son of a Viennese paper mill owner on 22 February 1949.· Thebes was Dionysus' own city, where he was born, the son of Zeus and the Theban princess Semele.· Charles's next child was born dead - a son.· I was born the son of a woodman who chopped down trees in the forest and sold the wood for a living.· An abortion is performed, or a son is born.
· They had one son, who died at birth.· At about the same time, his two legitimate sons died of the plague.· Jean's son Darren died from a major epileptic fit three months after this interview.· I watched my son die in the hospital.· In 1896 her son died of typhoid.· Cathy and Chris Erb are relieved they considered it when their son, Logan, died last year.· The eldest son, Edmund, died as a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, in 1577.· Her two sons sought retribution for their father, but Rita would rather her sons died than become murderers.
· Before he died, he cursed us for killing his son.· Once Abraham can see the place where he will kill his son, the pace of the narrative slows right down.· Sibling rivalry kills Oedipus' sons.· Then the examining magistrate changed his mind, released Mr Laroche and charged Mrs Villemin with killing her own son.· What is important to me is the apprehension of the person or persons who killed our son.· So they kill the son to acquire the vineyard.· The father responded by threatening to kill his sons, Erik said.
· Sophie will marry one day, and perhaps she will send her sons to you.· Not one to accept defeat so easily, she sent her son joe to the place where such records are kept.· She gave harp lessons and sent her son firmly to school.· I sent my son, Danny, far out of the danger zone.· She sent my son Branwell away, and later married a rich old man.· The Grotonian reflected not only the school itself but the social milieu that sent its sons there.· John Pascoe who sent his son.· I sent the youngest son in another direction and the girls to a third place.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► like father like son► son of a gun!
1[countable] someone’s male child: - And the sons of union officials find the door to City Hall open if they decide on a career in politics.
- Anthony Hopkins was much more frightening as a serial killer than Currie is as the son of Satan.
- Born in 1589, he was the son of a small tenant farmer.
- Brunhild, however, was prepared to say that her grandson Theudebert was the son of a gardener.
- Had the detention of the son been unlawful, Fennell would have been justified in acting as he did.
- I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
- The scenes between the sons, all witty repartee, came close to a spoof of stagey theatrical speech.
- And my son will probably be just like you.
- How much compassion would I have toward Duncan Fleming if it were my son who was killed?
- However, in the spring of 1977 an offer was made, which my son accepted.
- I had my son, yet I was lonely.
- I often read aloud to my sons the nonfiction books that support their school studies.
- Mr Shepherd appeared in my office with my son - said he'd found him roaming about the factory.
- What about it, Gabriel my son?
- Land passes from father to son: his is split between himself and his father.
- The bone-setting power is often handed down from father to son.
- The centuries' old recipe has been handed down from father to son.
- The eyes of those in the room shifted uneasily from father to son.
- The whole gentile constitution made the transference of private property from father to son impossible.
- Their status was hereditary, land and titles being passed on from father to son.
- This means that harem females are being passed down from father to son in a patrilineal fashion.
- And Rebekah will never again see her favourite son.
- He was not her favourite son, but he was something.
- On the other hand, Dubroca, even before Fouroux's exit, was one of Albert Ferrasse's favourite sons.
- Pamela thought for a moment of Roy, her favourite son, and Bernice, his wife - also a career girl.
- Wolsey played with the gold pendant around his neck and smirked patronisingly at Agrippa as if he was a favourite son.
- And then they went into this foster children um, having a home for foster children.
- As a result, the report said, one in 10 foster children remains in the system for more than seven years.
- Other foster children with happy memories did the same, though distance and new relationships combined to make contact sporadic.
- Roland then removed the spell from himself and the good foster daughter.
- The witch was able to see her foster daughter and Roland fleeing because of her magic powers.
- These foster children are not available for adoption.
- These are establishments which, for a fee, will undertake to foster children of very tender years.
- I had two grown daughters, and when I lost the first one, this one became the apple of my eye.
- See more of his grown daughter and son.
- Seeing photographs of Rubilove Willcox Aiu in newspapers last Sunday was unexpected and bewildering for her grown children.
- Tall, slender and divorced, Sheila had-incredibly-two grown sons.
- The senator, 72, has a grown daughter by his former wife but is of grandfatherly vintage now.
- Yet her husband, laid off from his job as a messenger, and her grown children are unemployed.
- How does one recognise pain in a newborn baby to whom one can not speak?
- In 1987 our newborn baby died.
- In the early 1950s an effective method of resuscitating newborn babies who did not breathe was not known.
- No one expects a newborn baby to go out and get a job before learning the basic life skills and getting schooling.
- One example might be where a newborn child developed an infection requiring special care, but recovered in a few days.
- The occasional incidents of newborn babies being stolen from public hospitals understandably causes a furore.
- Under a window lay our newborn son crowned by a spectrum, the seven strands of vision.
- A prodigal daughter, I had learned in only one day, I was not.
- A final provocative statement from a life-long prankster, a prodigal son of Harvard, it seems so fitting.
- He is a classic modern tough guy as well as being an Old Testament prodigal son.
- The prodigal son had returned to Parkhead.
- The prodigal son will feast with harlots no more.
- The parable of the prodigal son conveys at a conscious level a message about the need for forgiveness and acceptance.
- The play, very moral in tone throughout, is a reworking of the theme of the return of the prodigal son.
- When the music stopped, Gary concentrated on the parable of the prodigal son.
- Son of a bitch! The car won't start!
- Getting the new tire on was a real son of a bitch.
Her son Sean was born in 1983. They have three sons and a daughter. In those days, the property went to the eldest son. their youngest son, Georgeson of the son of a poor farmer → like father like son at father1(7)2[singular] spoken used by an older person as a way to address a boy or young man: What’s your name, son?3the Son Jesus Christ, the second member of the group from the Christian religion that also includes the Father and the Holy Spirit4[countable] written a man, especially a famous man, from a particular place or country: Frank Sinatra, New Jersey’s most famous son5my son used by a priest to address a man or boy → favourite son at favourite1(2)