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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024son /sʌn/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a male child or person in relation to his parents by birth, adoption, or marriage.
- (used by an older person to address a younger male):"Well, son, here's the choice: jail or a fine,'' the sheriff said.
- a male person looked upon as the result of a particular agent or influence:sons of the soil.
-son-, root. - -son- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning "sound.'' This meaning is found in such words as: consonant, dissonance, dissonant, resonance, resonant, resonate, resound, sonar, sonata, sonic, sonnet, sound, supersonic, ultrasonic, unison.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024son (sun),USA pronunciation n. - a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- a male child or person adopted as a son;
a person in the legal position of a son. - any male descendant:a son of the Aztecs.
- a son-in-law.
- a person related as if by ties of sonship.
- a male person looked upon as the product or result of particular agencies, forces, influences, etc.:a true son of the soil.
- a familiar term of address to a man or boy from an older person, an ecclesiastic, etc.
- Religion the Son, the second person of the Trinity;
Jesus Christ.
- bef. 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
- var. of soni- before a vowel:sonance.
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