son
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
son/sʌn/
▶noun
- 1 a boy or man in relation to his parents.
■ a male descendant.
■ a man regarded as the product of a particular influence or environment.
- 2 (the Son) (in Christian belief) the second person of the Trinity; Christ.
- 3 (also my son) used as a form of address for a boy or younger man.
– phrases
son of a bitch (pl. sons of bitches) informal used as a general term of abuse.
son of a gun (pl. sons of guns) informal, chiefly N. Amer. a jocular way of addressing or referring to someone. [with ref. to the guns carried on ships: said to have been applied orig. to babies born at sea to women allowed to accompany their husbands.]
son of a bitch (pl. sons of bitches) informal used as a general term of abuse.
son of a gun (pl. sons of guns) informal, chiefly N. Amer. a jocular way of addressing or referring to someone. [with ref. to the guns carried on ships: said to have been applied orig. to babies born at sea to women allowed to accompany their husbands.]
– derivatives
sonship noun.
sonship noun.
– origin OE sunu, of Gmc origin.
'son' also found in these Oxford entries:
affiliate
- archduke
- Atharva Veda
- avunculate
- bar mitzvah
- bastard
- birthright
- bumiputra
- cadet
- Cain
- chacun à son goût
- child
- cognomen
- courtesy title
- daughter-in-law
- dauphin
- favourite
- filial
- filiation
- filicide
- fils
- God
- grandchild
- granddaughter
- grand duke
- grandson
- great-nephew
- Hamite
- hermaphrodite
- hidalgo
- homoiousian
- homoousian
- incarnation
- infante
- Ishmaelite
- Ismaili
- Jesus
- junior
- label
- libertine
- lord
- marry
- martlet
- mornay
- mullet
- nauplius
- nephew
- père
- person
- phaeton
