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Meaning son meaning

What does son mean?
Definitions in simple English

son

A son is a male child of someone. I am his son.

son

(= boy) a male human offspring their son became a famous judge his boy is taller than he is

Son

(= Word) the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus)

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Simple sentences

The old lady will often wait for her son in vain at the station.
The mother didn't know what to do with her son.
The boy standing over there is my son.
Happy is she who marries the son of a dead mother.
Her son's death broke Mary's heart.
Unlike him, his son is tall.
He made his son a chair.
They named their son John.
She writes to her son every now and then.
She prayed for her son's return.
She cared for her son.
She had to withdraw her son from the club.
My son is a journalist.
Tom cried during his son's graduation.
Like father, like son.
You need not have helped my son with his homework.
Why do you accuse my son?
Is this your son, Betty?
We named my son after my grandfather.
My uncle's brother's son got involved in a shady business and disgraced the family.
My son can count up to a hundred now.
A nephew is a son of one's brother or sister.
The doctor can cure your son of the disease.
Mary asked her son to behave himself.
Mr. Brown made his son learn Chinese.
Your son has come of age.
We had a good opinion of your son.
He encouraged his son to do something great.

Movie subtitles

Son, my son!
The son of former Captain Kururugi, Private Kururugi Suzaku.
Just before the Nephite people were wiped out, Mormon gave the plates to his son, Moroni.
Goodbye, son. We're so proud of you.
Alright son, just remember: do whatever Elder Price does.
If I had a son, I'd be proud if he was like Daniel.
You punk now dare to put your knife at my neck, the youngest son of Kim Eung Boo, who used to be Minister of Education and the former prime minister?
Thereheis,Ipresume. The only son of this household, Young Master Choi Ju Wal.
If you are not only Lord Kim Eung Boo's son, there is no way he will leave you alone.
Son, how can a mother throw her son away?
Your son Odilon is a good boy and a zealous apostle of our Saint-Simonian cause.
My only son with Arabs!
Doctor, my son's sick.
My father didn't have a son, so he taught me to read and write like a boy.
Show me, son.
Watch over my son.
I have a son.
The king's son! That's rather flattering.
Is that your son?
No one must ever know, otherwise Hadj Hamou will kill my son and I.
Go tell the king's son that I'm surrendering.
I, Abd el-Kader, son of Muhyi el-Din, combatant for Islam, the prince of the faithful and servant of Muslims, have waited for the time chosen by God.
He's your son?
The South calls me the woman from the North. You son-of-a-bitch, you met the right person today. You. actually caused my beloved to be deeply tormented?
If it was the first prize, it must have been truly disappointing. Your daughter is very pretty and nice. And your wife also said she's so happy to get to have a really good son-in-law.
The only son of this household, Young Master Choi Ju Wal.
Lord Choi's soldiers are taking my son away!
Lord Choi's soldiers? Because I couldn't give Lord Choi's farm rent in time, He took my one and only son to be sold as a slave.
ROSS. SON OF A BITCH. NO, ROSS.
SHE WAS -- LET HER GO, NATE! LET HER GO! YOU SON OF A BITCH.
This time around. I'll be a dutiful son to you!
Long story short, your son stole our stuff and then blew up my brother's brand-new, fully-loaded SUV.
Don't you go into that light, - you son of a bitch!
My son Philip came careering down the corridor and almost ran you down.
This is our son, Philip.
I need to talk to my son, Cal. - Well, why don't we all go inside where we can sit down and have a civil conversation?

News and current affairs

The US had not revised its policy, even with an African immigrant's son living in the White House.
After the shock of the September 2001 terrorist attacks, his son, George W. Bush, developed a far more ambitious vision.
The political generation of Bashar al-Assad, King Abdullah, and Gamal Mubarak - son of Egypt's ailing president - forms a less coherent picture than that of the outgoing leadership.
But generational change need not be accompanied by economic reform and steps towards political liberalization - witness North Korea under Kim Il Sung's son, Kim Jong Il.
There are indications that Egypt might follow suit, with Hosni Mubarak's son, Gamal, taking over.
Likewise, Libya's Muammar Khaddafi may be succeeded by his son, Seif el Islam.
An old and sick man who was to die a few months later, he acted with a sense of urgency to reach a deal that would relieve his inexperienced son of the burden of struggling for the recovery of the Golan Heights.
A sick man whose rule at home is being challenged by Islamist opponents, he decided that international ostracism and domestic troubles is too explosive a combination for his son, a spoiled playboy, to handle.
Of course, the sins of the father should never be visited on the son.
His son's expensive lifestyle as a student at Oxford and Harvard has been described in lavish detail in the press.
President George H. W. Bush, unlike his son, was transactional, but implemented a very successful foreign policy.
That gap proved the difference between the success of the father and the failure of the son.
The Ba'athist regime in Damascus is marked by two major formative experiences: Hafez al-Assad's loss of the Golan Heights to Israel, and his son Bashar's loss of Lebanon.
One doctor told Armstrong's mother that her son would die.
For example, Kim Il Sung groomed his son Kim Jong-il as his successor for about two decades before the younger Kim took power in 1994.
In old-style family firms, there is a clear rule of succession that the oldest son takes over.
There is obviously no guarantee that the oldest son is the best businessman, and the result could be bitter and ferocious sibling rivalry.
It is widely expected that Kim Jong-il's third son, Kim Jong-eun, will be appointed to a key position and be publicly announced as his father's successor.
This means accepting the decision of a son or grandson not to use his hard-earned university degree to become the primary breadwinner in his future household.
Syria has already sought to assure regime continuity through quasi-monarchic hereditary succession with the move from Hafez al-Assad to his son Bashar.
His son's ascension, unlike that of Bashar on the eve of his father's death, is anything but settled.
An old man with a long beard watches over us, and most of us retain a pretty literal opinion of the stories about his Son told in the Bible's New Testament.
Nor was Muammar Khaddafi's decision to stop being an international pariah entirely unrelated to his concern to bequeath to his son a state that lives in peace with the world.
China's incoming president, Xi Jinping, is the son of Xi Zhongxun, a former vice premier.