son
/sʌn/
their four-year-old son
my teenage/eldest son
her young/baby son
We have two sons and a daughter.
They have three grown-up sons.
In January 1816 she gave birth to a son, William.
She is survived by a son, Christopher.
the birth/death of a son
son of somebody
He's the son of an Oxford professor.
He was like a son to me.
Maine & Sons, Grocers (= the name of a company on a sign)
Well, son, how can I help you?
3 countable (literary) a man who belongs to a particular place or country, etc. one of France’s most famous sons
a native son of Philadelphia
4 my son countable (formal) used by a priest to address a boy or man the Son singular Jesus Christ as the second member of the Trinity 5 the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
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