1
a
: a human male offspring especially of human beings
b
: a male adopted child
c
: a human male descendant
2
capitalized
: the second person of the Trinity
3
: a person closely associated with or deriving from a formative agent (such as a nation, school, or race)
Examples of son in a Sentence
Noun
She gave birth to a son.
They have two sons and a daughter.
He is the son of a lawyer and a doctor.
the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
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His parents have led a yearslong fight to free their son and the overthrowing of the Assad regime increased hope that Tice may be found.
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The cast is rounded up by Denis Leary, who plays Mikey, Wyatt Aubrey who plays Paul and Lydia’s teenage son Jacob and Chloe East, who plays Emily, their oldest daughter.
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Son Malcolm directs this nuanced adaptation of the August Wilson play, and other son John David stars alongside a phenomenal Danielle Deadwyler as siblings butting heads over what to do with an heirloom piano.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
Her son left the family home in Hasaka in northern Syria in 2013 during one of the many escalations of the war which had at that point been raging for more than two years.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
His parents have led a yearslong fight to free their son and the overthrowing of the Assad regime increased hope that Tice may be found.
—Hadeel Al-Shalchi, NPR, 12 Dec. 2024
The cast is rounded up by Denis Leary, who plays Mikey, Wyatt Aubrey who plays Paul and Lydia’s teenage son Jacob and Chloe East, who plays Emily, their oldest daughter.
—Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Son.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/son. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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son
noun1
a
: a male offspring especially of human parents
b
: a human male descendant
2
capitalized
: the second person of the Trinity
3
: a man or boy closely associated with or thought of as a child of something (as a country, race, or religion)
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