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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One's male child.
2. n. A male descendant.
3. n. A man considered as if in a relationship of child to parent: a son of the soil.
4. n. One personified or regarded as a male descendant.
5. n. Used as a familiar form of address for a young man.
6. n. Christianity The second person of the Trinity.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A male child; the male issue of a parent, father or mother.
2. n. A male descendant, however distant; hence, in the plural, descendants in general.
3. n. One adopted into a family; any young male dependent; any person in whom the relation of a son to a parent is perceived or imagined. Often used as a term of address by an old man to a young one, by a confessor to a penitent, etc.
4. n. A person or thing born or produced, in relation to the producing soil, country, or the like.
5. n. A person whose character partakes so much of some quality or characteristic as to suggest the relationship of son and parent: as, sons of light; sons of pride; the son of perdition.
6. n. One of Christ's followers; one of the regenerate.
7. n. In the New Testament, Christ as the promised Messiah.
8. n. In the years preceding the revolution, one of associations formed to forward the American cause.
9. n. One of the secret associations, similar to the Knights of the Golden Circle, formed in the North during the civil war, for the purpose of giving aid to the Confederacy.
10. n. An original spelling of sound.
11. n. A form of termination -tion, in some words derived through Old French, as in benison, malison, venison, reason, season, treason, etc. See -tion.

Wiktionary

1. n. A male child, a boy or man in relation to his parents; one's male offspring.
2. n. A male adopted person in relation to his adoption parents.
3. n. 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.
4. n. A male person considered to have been significantly shaped by some external influence.
5. n. A male descendant.
6. n. A familiar address to a male person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
7. n. UK, colloquial A friendly address to a person of equal authority.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A male child; the male issue, or offspring, of a parent, father or mother.
2. n. A male descendant, however distant; hence, in the plural, descendants in general.
3. n. Any young male person spoken of as a child; an adopted male child; a pupil, ward, or any other young male dependent.
4. n. A native or inhabitant of some specified place.
5. n. The produce of anything.
6. n. Jesus Christ, the Savior; -- called the Son of God, and the Son of man.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus)
2. n. a male human offspring