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Son   /sən/   Listen
noun
Son  n.  
1.
A male child; the male issue, or offspring, of a parent, father or mother. "Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son."
2.
A male descendant, however distant; hence, in the plural, descendants in general. "I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings." "I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed."
3.
Any young male person spoken of as a child; an adopted male child; a pupil, ward, or any other young male dependent. "The child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son." "Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift."
4.
A native or inhabitant of some specified place; as, sons of Albion; sons of New England.
5.
The produce of anything. "Earth's tall sons, the cedar, oak, and pine."
6.
(Commonly with the def. article) Jesus Christ, the Savior; called the Son of God, and the Son of man. "We... do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world." "Who gave His Son sure all has given." Note: The expressions son of pride, sons of light, son of Belial, are Hebraisms, which denote persons possessing the qualitites of pride, of light, or of Belial, as children inherit the qualities of their ancestors.
Sons of the prophets. See School of the prophets, under Prophet.






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"Son" Quotes from Famous Books



... been inclined to regard the son of Mme. de Sevigne as the more lovable of her two children, but she doubtless recognized in his light and inconsequent character many of the qualities of her husband which had given her so much sorrow during the brief ...
— The Women of the French Salons • Amelia Gere Mason

... priests, who were not slow in converting him, and induced Charles to settle upon him a pension of a dollar per day. He died some few years since in Seville, a despised vagabond. He left behind him a son, who is at present a notary, and outwardly very devout, but a greater hypocrite and picaroon does not exist. I would you could see his face, Kyrie, it is that of Judas Iscariot. I think you would say so, for you are a physiognomist. He lives next door to me, and notwithstanding his pretensions ...
— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow

... thee, brother!" he remarked. "Thine is a voice like a warrior's—bold and big! Thou art a true son of the Prophet!" ...
— King--of the Khyber Rifles • Talbot Mundy

... was waiting him. The citizens of Agen capped all the previous honours of the poet. They awarded him a crown of gold, which must have been the greatest recompense of all. They had known him during almost his entire life—the son of a humpbacked tailor and a crippled mother, of poor but honest people, whose means had been helped by the grandfather, Boe, who begged from door to door, the old man who closed his eyes in the hospital, "where all the ...
— Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist • Samuel Smiles

... and whatsoever is contrary to sound Doctrine, and the power of Godlinesse, and to continue with us and the generations following, these his pure and purged Ordinances, together with an increase of the power and life thereof, To the glory of his great Name, the enlargement of the Kingdom of his Son, the corroboration of Peace and Love between the Kingdoms, the unity and content of all his People, and our ...
— The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland


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