Definition of "son" []

• One's male child. (noun)
• A male descendant. (noun)
• A man considered as if in a relationship of child to parent: a son of the soil. (noun)
• One personified or regarded as a male descendant. (noun)
• Used as a familiar form of address for a young man. (noun)

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• "During the celebrated Peninsular campaign, as a lady, whose son, a French officer in Spain, was seated in her room, she was astonished to perceive the folding doors at the bottom of the apartment slowly open, and disclose to her eyes, _her son_."
• "Granting _alleyn_ to be rightly put for alone, no ancient writer, I apprehend, ever used such a phrase as this; any more than we should now say -- _my son alone_ for _my only son_."
• "But if she was childless, the next of kin of her husband must beget one son by her; he did not _marry_ her, and his connection with her _ceased on the birth of a son_."