Noun

(wikipedia son) (en noun)

A male child, a boy or man in relation to his parents; one's male offspring.

The Chinese and Indians say all too often: "I want a son , not a daughter."

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.

He was a son of the mafia system.

A male descendant.

The pharaohs were believed to be sons of the Sun.

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(UK, colloquial)

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* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=7 citation , passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)

, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}