MOTHER'S SON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mother's son mean? 

• MOTHER'S SON (noun)
  The noun MOTHER'S SON has 1 sense:

1. a male person

  Familiarity information: MOTHER'S SON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOTHER'S SON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A male person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

every mother's son who could walk was there

Hypernyms ("mother's son" is a kind of...):

male; male person (a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies)

 Context examples 

Now, that's about where we are, every mother's son of us, thanks to him, and Hands, and Anderson, and other ruination fools of you.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"But I shall make thee understand. Know that I was away on the hunt of the bear, with Kamo-tah, my mother's son. And Kamo-tah fought with a great bear. We had no meat for three days, and Kamo-tah was not strong of arm nor swift of foot. And the great bear crushed him, so, till his bones cracked like dry sticks. Thus I found him, very sick and groaning upon the ground. And there was no meat, nor could I kill aught that the sick man might eat.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)