son (original) (raw)
This is our son Raja.
We have two sons and three daughters.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
- childWe have three children, two girls and a boy.
- sonMy son is getting married in the spring.
- daughterHer daughter works for a multinational in the Netherlands.
- kidMy two kids are both grown up now.
- offspringI'm sure you'll be relieved once your offspring grow up and leave home.
- broodMy sister descended on me with her brood of five.
Come on, son, we don't have all day.
a son of somewhere literary
that notable son of Württemberg, Martin Brecht
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
(Definition of son from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of son
son
However, even in this context, patrician fathers were dismayed to see the lengths to which their sons took this trend.
Men sought to endow each son with sufficient land to establish a separate household.
Another informant lived with a mentally disabled son with learning difficulties, and had lost a second son as a result of political violence.
No choice was provided, inducing her to accept the sleeping arrangement decided by her son.
In all three populations, new heads were almost always the sons or grandsons of the previous head (72 to 79 per cent).
Permutations of the ranks (whether of sons, grandsons or the pools of sons plus grandsons) were performed within sires.
They loudly poured out their worries, calling on their male relatives to discipline their sons.
Once performed, an adoption was irrevocable and the adoptive son enjoyed all the rights of natural sons.
It would be eleven in the morning, her son would be at school, and the servants would be out shopping.
The eldest son tried to bear the brunt of these burdens, but it was not long before he had to leave.
These rights are usually inherited by the eldest son in the family.
The focus is now on her desires and goals and not on accommodating to her son in any way.
A simple or extended household usually became vertical as soon as at least one son married.
This study suggests that adopting a more protective role was considered by sons as gender-appropriate.
The onset of the vanaprastha or retirement stage is meant to coincide with the first son's reaching maturity and eager to take over authority.
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Collocations with son
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Often a woman head was immediately succeeded by her son, adopted son, or son-in-law.
In 1979, three had an adult son living in the same household.
Moreover, if the eldest son was deceased, the headship passed to the eldest surviving son of the deceased elder son.
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