What is the difference between son and child?
son | child | Hypernyms |
A male child, a boy or man in relation to his parents; one's male offspring.
A male adopted person in relation to his adoption parents.
A male person who has such a close relationship with an older or otherwise more authoritative person that he can be regarded as a son of the other person.
A male person considered to have been significantly shaped by some external influence.
A male descendant.
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(UK, colloquial)
A daughter or son; an offspring.
(figuratively) An offspring; one born in, or considered a product of the culture of, a place.
* 1984 , Mary Jane Matz, The Many Lives of Otto Kahn: A Biography , page 5:
(figuratively) A member of a tribe, a people or a race of beings; one born into or considered a product of a people.
* 2009 , Edward John Moreton Dunsany, Tales of Wonder , page 64:
(figuratively) A thing or abstraction derived from or caused by something.
* 1991 , (w, Midnight's Children) , (Salman Rushdie) (title)
A person who is below the age of adulthood; a minor (person who is below the legal age of responsibility or accountability).
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
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, title= (computing) A data item, process or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another data item, process or object.
* 2011 , John Mongan, ?Noah Kindler, ?Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed
(obsolete) A female infant; a girl.
* Shakespeare
Child is a antonym of son.
Child is a hypernym of son.
As nouns the difference between son and child
is that son is a male child, a boy or man in relation to his parents; one's male offspring while child is a daughter or son; an offspring.As a proper noun Son
is jesus Christ, whom Christians believe to be the son of God.As an acronym SON
is supraOptic Nucleus.As an abbreviation SON
is sonora, a state of Mexico.son
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Noun
(wikipedia son) (en noun)- The Chinese and Indians say all too often: "I want a son , not a daughter."
- He was a son of the mafia system.
- The pharaohs were believed to be sons of the Sun.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* (with regards to gender) daughter * (with regards to ancestry) father, mother, parentHypernyms
* childDerived terms
* bachelor's son * favorite son/favourite son * grandfather-father-son * grandson * * mother's son * prodigal son * son-in-law * sonny * son of a bitch * son of a gun * son of a whore * son of privilege * son of the manse * stepson * whoresonStatistics
*Anagrams
* (l), , (l) 1000 English basic words ----child
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Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Noun
(en-noun)- For more than forty years, he preached the creed of art and beauty. He was heir to the ancient wisdom of Israel, a child of Germany, a subject of Great Britain, later an American citizen, but in truth a citizen of the world.
- Plash-Goo was of the children of the giants, whose sire was Uph. And the lineage of Uph had dwindled in bulk for the last five hundred years, till the giants were now no more than fifteen foot high; but Uph ate elephants
Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child' s life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}
- The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).
- A boy or a child , I wonder?
Synonyms
* (daughter or son) boy, fruit of one's loins, girl, kid, offspring * (young person) bairn, boy, brat, girl, kid, lad, lass * See alsoAntonyms
* (daughter or son) father, mother, parent * (person below the age of adulthood) adult * parentDerived terms
* boomerang child * childhood * childish * childless * childlike * love-child * lovechild * manchild * middle child * only child * perpetual child * problem child * schoolchild * war child * with childSee also
* orlingReferences
*Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary(accessed November 2007). *
American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company (2003). English nouns with irregular plurals 1000 English basic words