son.
One's male offspring.
Meaning & usage
One's male offspring.
Before the birth of the man's child, he said: "I want a son, not a daughter."
A male adopted person in relation to his adoptive parents.
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.
A male person considered to have been significantly shaped by social conflict.
He was a son of the mafia system.
A person regarded as the product of some place.
A familiar address to a male person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
An informal address to a friend or person of equal authority.
The current version of a file, derived from the preceding father file.
Where this word comes from
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”).
To produce (i.e. bear, father, beget) a son.
To address (someone) as "son".
Where this word comes from
From Middle English sonen, sunen, from the noun (see above).
Son cubano, a genre of music and dance blending Spanish and African elements that originated in Cuba during the late 19th century.
Where this word comes from
From Spanish son (literally “tone, sound”).
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