Word Finder - son

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One's male offspring.

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Before the birth of the man's child, he said: "I want a son, not a daughter."

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A male adopted person in relation to his adoptive parents.

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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.

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A male person considered to have been significantly shaped by some external influence.

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He was a son of the mafia system.

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A male descendant.

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The pharaohs were believed to be sons of the Sun.

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A familiar address to a male person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.

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An informal address to a friend or person of equal authority.

Her son was missing.

I have loved you like a son from the first.

Your son has real tal­ent.

I already have a son and daughter.

How do you feel today, son?

Edith looked once more at her son and then picked up the garment and the comb.

The day after his son had left, Prince Nicholas sent for Princess Mary to come to his study.

In that 'extend' were my father, son, and sister, at Bald Hills.

I'm not psychotic, I didn't have amnesia yesterday, I've never had a son!

Prince Andrew's little son was seven.

On his last day, sobbing, he asked her and his absent son to forgive him for having dissipated their property--that being the chief fault of which he was conscious.

From the time Alex brought him home for a visit, they had been like father and son.

My son, he likes to say how things will be, yes?

Cynthia was still on the phone so after Dean introduced himself he completed the paperwork, without comment or acknowledgment that he knew Ryland's relationship to Bird Song's other guest Edith Shipton and her son.

How did Shipton react to his own son's death?

Donald Ryland returned with his son.

Donald Ryland kept up a nonstop conversation with his son and front seat companion, as they whipped along the highway.

Don't worry about the top of the mountain just yet, son.

Dean asked as Ryland skied up to his son and tried to console him.

But it was Ryland who asked his son if that was who frightened him.

When her son Randy, visiting Bird Song over his Christmas college break, had expressed an interest in the sport, she had a fit.

Across the hall were Effie and Claire, with Edith and her son in the rear bedroom.

While Dean had wandered up to the area with Cynthia's son Randy on a few occasions, she had steadfastly stayed away.

Edith Shipton, all abeam, took the Deans aside to tell them how thrilled she was with her son Donnie's blossoming relationship with his father.

If I had a gun I'd kill the son of a bitch!

Shipton is a son of a bitch in anyone's book.

Dean, crossing his fingers at being on a roll, decided to ask about the death of Shipton's son.

It seems there's some confusion on how son number one died.

He couldn't even get the son of a bitch out of his and his wife's life.

Dean could tell from the conversation she was speaking to her son Randy.

Cynthia was still sleeping when a speeding Ford Explorer passed them and Dean caught sight of Donald Ryland, with his son Donnie sitting beside him.

Dean assumed it was Jeff Byrne's son, Randy.

His novels, for the most part published first in London, reflect his wild adventurous life, the best known being The Son of the Wolf (1900); The Call of the Wild (1903); Moon Face (1906); Martin Eden (1909); South Sea Tales (1912), and his last, The Little Lady of the Big House (1916).

When a pause occurred during his short visit, Nicholas, as is usual when there are children, turned to Prince Andrew's little son, caressing him and asking whether he would like to be an hussar.

Natasha had married in the early spring of 1813, and in 1820 already had three daughters besides a son for whom she had longed and whom she was now nursing.

She started to rise but her son tugged her down, indicating he wanted to remain.

She looked down at her son, as if just now noticing his presence.

Edith stood there, neither following her son, nor making any move to enter further into the room.

She claims Donnie isn't Shipton's son.

Dean turned to his wife as Ryland and his son began packing his gear.

Yes, I despised the son of a bitch, especially after he grabbed my wife's breast ten feet away from me.

She chose Ouray, at least according to Ryland, because he was her son's father and he was coming here to ice climb.

Look, son, Fred continued.

Her son has been called from Denver and is to arrive tomorrow on the afternoon train.

I was so mad, I unholstered my piece and pointed it right at the little son of a bitch.

Then she added, What kind of a mother lets her son do something stupid like climbing icicles at the age of twelve?

I'd like to hear Donnie's side of the story about the drowning of Shipton's son, too.

Dean assumed if Cynthia's son had traveled to see his grandmother, she had taken a turn for the worse.

Cynthia's son Randy was on his way back to college.

Edith Shipton was protecting the one person she truly loved, her son Donnie.