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SON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus)
Synonyms:
Classified under:
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))
Sense 2
Meaning:
A male human offspring
Example:
his boy is taller than he is
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
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)
Context examples:
Then I should love Mrs. Reed, which I cannot do; I should bless her son John, which is impossible.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"Yes, he has been like a son to us, and we are very fond of him," replied Mrs. March, returning the look with a keen one.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I had an old mother there, lad, who had come down thither from the Midlands to be the nearer her son.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Are those your sons down there?”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Ah, well, my son, you praise your stars he's dead,” said Silver.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
That is my room at the end of the stairs, and my son’s is the one beyond it.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire: I was the third of five sons.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Then the second son was ordered to watch; and at midnight he too fell asleep, and in the morning another apple was gone.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
A human descendant (son or daughter) of any age.
(Offspring, NCI Thesaurus)
What would be your surprise, my son, when you expected a happy and glad welcome, to behold, on the contrary, tears and wretchedness?
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
