SON

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• SON (noun)
  The noun SON has 2 senses:

1. a male human offspring

2. the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus)

  Familiarity information: SON used as a noun is rare.

• SON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A male human offspring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

boy; son

Context example:

his boy is taller than he is

Hypernyms ("son" is a kind of...):

male offspring; man-child (a child who is male)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "son"):

Jnr; Jr; Junior (a son who has the same first name as his father)

mama's boy; mamma's boy; mother's boy (a boy excessively attached to his mother; lacking normal masculine interests)

Instance hyponyms:

Esau ((Old Testament) the eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac; he traded his birthright to his twin brother Jacob for a mess of pottage)

Antonym:

daughter (a female human offspring)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Logos; Son; Word

Instance hypernyms:

hypostasis; hypostasis of Christ (any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united)

Instance hyponyms:

Messiah (Jesus Christ; considered by Christians to be the promised deliverer)

Christ; Deliverer; Good Shepherd; Jesus; Jesus Christ; Jesus of Nazareth; Redeemer; Savior; Saviour; the Nazarene (a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29))

 Context examples 

Sons of the one mother though they were, they were as different as day and night.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

'He was the only son of his mother, and she was a widow.'

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"Where be thy strong son, Moklan, and the fish he was ever willing to bring that you might eat?"

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

“He had a son with him, hadn't he?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Jim Hall," said Judge Scott, and father and son looked significantly at each other.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He had stood behind that tree during the interview between the father and son.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The father was away in search of his son.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Stout, active—looks as young as his son.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I wonder my son did not propose it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"Exactly like father and son! Dear Miss Elliot, may I not say father and son?"

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)