Usually means: Male child of a parent.
Definitions Related words Phrases Mentions Lyrics History Colors (New!) Easter eggs (New!)
We found 50 dictionaries that define the word son:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. son: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. son, son-, the Son, the son: Merriam-Webster
  3. son, the Son: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. son: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. son: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Son, son: Vocabulary.com
  7. Son, son, son, son: Wordnik
  8. son: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. SON, Son, -son, son: Wiktionary
  10. son: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. son: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. son, son-, the son: Dictionary.com
  13. son: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. son: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SON (gene), Son (Juana Molina album), Son (Korean name), Son (Korean surname), Son (Netherlands), Son (Spanish footballer), Son (TV series), Son (dance), Son (disambiguation), Son (footballer), Son (music), Son (novel), Son (surname), Son, The Son (Friday Night Lights), The Son (Meyer novel), The Son (TV series), The Son (play), The Son (singer), The Son: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Son: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. son: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Son: Rhymezone
  19. son, son (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. son: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SON: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Son: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. son: FreeDictionary.org
  24. son: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. The Son, son: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. son: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. son: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Dance (No longer online)
  3. son-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  4. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Son, The Son: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Son, The Son: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Son: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. son-: Medical dictionary
  3. Son: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. SON: Acronym Finder
  4. SON: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. The Son, son: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Son: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Son: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. SON: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Son (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. son, son, son: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. S.O.N, S.O.N. (Son of Nat), The son: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sonhood as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
)
American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One's male offspring.
noun:  A male adopted person in relation to his adoptive parents.
noun:  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.
noun:  A male person considered to have been significantly shaped by social conflict.
noun:  A person regarded as the product of some place.
noun:  A familiar address to a male person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
noun:  (UK, New York City, colloquial) An informal address to a friend or person of equal authority.
noun:  (computing) The current version of a file, derived from the preceding father file.
verb:  (transitive) To produce (i.e. bear, father, beget) a son.
verb:  (transitive) To address (someone) as "son".
noun:  (music) Son cubano, a genre of music and dance blending Spanish and African elements that originated in Cuba during the late 19th century.
noun:  (Christianity) one of the three persons of the Trinity, believed to have become incarnated as Jesus Christ
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Initialism of supraoptic nucleus.
noun:  Abbreviation of Sonora. (state of Mexico) [A state of Mexico.]

Similar:

Opposite:

Phrases:

Adjectives:

Colors:
    yellow,     orange,     red,     amber,     marigold, more...



Word origin

Words similar to son

Usage examples for son

Idioms related to son

Wikipedia articles (New!)

Popular adjectives describing son

Words that often appear near son

Rhymes of son

Invented words related to son

Similar:

Opposite:

Phrases:

Adjectives:

Colors:
    yellow,     orange,     red,     amber,     marigold, more...



Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter.
This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.



List phrases that spell out son 




Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Word games   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Random word   Help


Color thesaurus

Use OneLook to find colors for words and words for colors

See an example

Literary notes

Use OneLook to learn how words are used by great writers

See an example

Word games

Try our innovative vocabulary games

Play Now

Read the latest OneLook newsletter issue: Threepeat Redux