• IPA: /sʌn/, /sɒn/

son (plural sons)

1. One's male offspring.

   Before the birth of the man's child, he said: "I want a son, not a daughter."

   • 1671, John Milton, “Book the First”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398 ↗, lines 165-166, page 10 ↗:

     From what conſummate vertue I have choſe / This perfect Man, by merit call'd my Son,

2. A male adopted person in relation to his adoptive parents.
3. 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.
4. A male person considered to have been significantly shaped by some external influence.

   He was a son of the mafia system.

5. A male descendant.

   The pharaohs were believed to be sons of the Sun.

6. A familiar address to a male person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
7. (UK, colloquial) An informal address to a friend or person of equal authority.

• See also Thesaurus:son

• (with regards to gender) daughter
• (with regards to ancestry) father, mother, parent

son (sons, present participle sonning; past and past participle sonned)

1. (transitive) To produce (i.e. bear, father, beget) a son.
2. (transitive) To address (someone) as "son".

1. (Christianity) one of the three persons of the Trinity, believed to have become incarnated in Jesus Christ

• Son of God
• Son of Man

son

1. Initialism of supraoptic nucleus

1. Abbreviation of Sonora#English|Sonora. state of Mexico