as in descendent
a person born into a family and especially one that is rich, famous, or important
He's the scion of a billionaire family.
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Recent Examples of scion
In the end, his multicultural coalition trounced Andrew Cuomo, a former governor and scion of a New York political dynasty boosted by more than $20 million in super-PAC spending.
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Mark Chiusano, Time, 14 Aug. 2025
The eighth-generation scion doesn’t take her new role lightly.
—Naazneen Karmali, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
The character’s defiance, her desire to break free, came more naturally to Lower than the role of Helly’s outie, the privileged Lumon scion Helena Eagan, who takes on more prominence in season two.
—Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
Read Shari Redstone’s full exit memo below The latest in a series of goodbyes from the freshly re-moneyed up scion of Sumner Redstone, today’s exit memo follows similar sayonaras from departing Paramount co-CEOs Brian Robbins and Chris McCarthy.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2025
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Mark Chiusano, Time, 14 Aug. 2025
The eighth-generation scion doesn’t take her new role lightly.
—Naazneen Karmali, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
The character’s defiance, her desire to break free, came more naturally to Lower than the role of Helly’s outie, the privileged Lumon scion Helena Eagan, who takes on more prominence in season two.
—Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
Read Shari Redstone’s full exit memo below The latest in a series of goodbyes from the freshly re-moneyed up scion of Sumner Redstone, today’s exit memo follows similar sayonaras from departing Paramount co-CEOs Brian Robbins and Chris McCarthy.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scion
Noun
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This lineage is a descendant of the Omicron variant of the virus.—
Omer Awan,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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The TinyTV 2 is the descendant of the $75 (as of this writing) TinyTV DIY Kit that came out three years prior.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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But for all its stylistic brio and an overall mesmerizing look, in which even throwaway visuals (like the icy corpse of a solider frozen to his battlefield steed) sear themselves into your memory, Frankenstein remains the simple, direct story of a man and his nonbiological offspring.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
9 Sep. 2025
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And the fact that Lucian had so many offspring, Bella told me, can be explained, at least to some extent, by his youthful partners’ intentionality.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Scion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scion. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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