son
a male human offspring
How often you will meet it
Rank 336 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 60,900 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.029% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- a male human offspring also: boy their son became a famous judgehis boy is taller than he is
- the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus) also: Word, Logos
son in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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My son the pander! now I find our house Sinking to ruin.
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1
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Make haste, my son, the hour is waxing late, The night is cold, methinks our sheep await.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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The victims of this tragedy were a colored man, named Hamp Biscoe, his wife and a thirteen-year-old son.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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Sir Thomas Tresham had, as he proposed, left his wife and son at Exeter when the force marched away.
A Knight of the White Cross · G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · Chapter 1
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The older man, proud and strong and reserved, turned on his son such a shining face as the boy had never seen.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1