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单词 son
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son

noun
 
/sʌn/
/sʌn/
Idioms
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  1.  
    [countable] a person’s male child
    • 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)
    Collocations ChildrenChildrenHaving a baby/​child
    • want a baby/​a child/​kids
    • start a family
    • conceive/​be expecting/​be going to have a baby/​child
    • miss your period
    • become/​get/​be/​find out that you are pregnant
    • have a baby/​a child/​kids/​a son/​a daughter/​twins/​a family
    • have a normal/​a difficult/​an unwanted pregnancy; an easy/​a difficult/​a home birth
    • be in/​go into/​induce labour (especially US English) labor
    • have/​suffer/​cause a miscarriage
    • give birth to a child/​baby/​daughter/​son/​twins
    Parenting
    • bring up/ (especially North American English) raise a child/​family
    • care for/ (especially British English) look after a baby/​child/​kid
    • change (British English) a nappy/(North American English) a diaper/​a baby
    • feed/​breastfeed/​bottle-feed a baby
    • be entitled to/​go on maternity/​paternity leave
    • go back/​return to work after maternity leave
    • need/​find/​get a babysitter/​good quality affordable childcare
    • balance/​combine work and childcare/​child-rearing/​family life
    • educate/​teach/​home-school a child/​kid
    • punish/​discipline/​spoil a child/​kid
    • adopt a baby/​child/​kid
    • offer a baby for/​put a baby up for adoption
    • (especially British English) foster a child/​kid
    • be placed with/​be raised by foster parents
    Homophones son | sunson   sun
    /sʌn/
    /sʌn/
    • son noun
      • Their youngest son is still living at home.
    • sun noun
      • Let's go for a picnic while the sun is shining!
    Extra Examples
    • Living alone and trying to bring up a young son is no easy task.
    • The queen bore him four fine sons.
    • They welcomed me like a long-lost son.
    • an illegitimate son of Louis XV
    • Our oldest son is playing football.
    • his son from a previous marriage
    Topics Family and relationshipsa1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • baby
    • newborn
    • infant
    verb + son
    • have
    • bear
    • give birth to
    son + verb
    • grow up
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  2. [singular] (informal) a friendly form of address that is used by an older man to a young man or boy
    • 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
  5. the Son
    [singular] Jesus Christ as the second member of the Trinity
    • the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
  6. Word OriginOld English sunu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zoon and German Sohn, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek huios.
Idioms
somebody’s favourite son
  1. a performer, politician, sports player, etc., who is popular where they were born
  2. (in the US) a candidate for president who is supported by his or her own state in the first part of a campaign
from father to son
  1. from one generation of a family to the next
like father, like son
  1. (saying) used to say that a son’s character or behaviour is similar to that of his father
the/a prodigal (son)
  1. a person who leaves home and wastes their money and time on a life of pleasure, but who later is sorry about this and returns home
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