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Daughter's counterpart
Answer for the clue "Daughter's counterpart", 3 letters:
son
Alternative clues for the word son
Laertes, to Polonius
Junior
Dauphin
Favorite relative in politics?
Sequel title start
Jesus Christ, with "the"
Prince, e.g.
Part of the Holy Trinity
Family boy
Michael Douglas, to Kirk
Part of the Trinity, with "the"
Word in many business names
Zeus, to Cronus
Patronizing term, maybe
Primogeniture beneficiary
Prodigal ___
Cain was the first
One who passes on a name, often
Tom, to the piper
Ampersand follower, sometimes
"Favorite" person
Royal wish
Follower of "&" in many business names
Name passer, perhaps
Henry V, to Henry IV
Trinity component
Last word in many company names
Junior, usually
George W., to George
Chip off the old block
Word ending many company names
"My boy"
One may be a favorite
Junior, to Senior
46-Down, to Aphrodite
43-Down, to Adam
Jesus, with "the"
Junior, e.g.
Trinity member
"Favorite" one
William, to Charles
IV, to III
___ of a gun
Labor day arrival?
Bart, to Homer Simpson
Potential heir
William, to Diana
Young fellow
"My ___, the doctor"
Roughly one of every two deliveries
___ of God
Sequel title starter
RCA competitor
8-Down, with "the"
Many a delivery
Holy Trinity part
Ham, to Noah
38-Down was the second one
III, to Jr.
Mama's boy
End of some company names
Daughter's opposite
Male delivery?
"Listen, ___ ..."
II or III
II or III, say
Y beneficiary
Prince, to a king
Magritte's "The ___ of Man"
Bush 43, to Bush 41
Delivery possibility
Male delivery
"That's a joke, ___!"
George W., to George H. W.
Heir, perhaps
Sequel title starter, sometimes
IV to III, maybe
Figs.
Heir, but not an heiress
Business partner, often
Pluto, to Saturn
Charlie Sheen, to Martin
One of two deliveries?
Word after an ampersand, maybe
Favorite ___
Many a beneficiary
Heir, maybe, but not an heiress
Result of labor half the time?
Holy Trinity member
Like a ___ to me
Delivery outcome, sometimes
Neptune vis-Г -vis Saturn
Hal, to Henry IV
Ampersand follower, maybe
Trinity part
Start of a sequel, sometimes
John Quincy Adams, to John Adams
A male human offspring
Little guy
Dickens's "Dombey and ___"
Scion
Cantor fantasy
Abraham, to Terah
Half of many a business partnership
Nathan, to David
Heir, frequently
Telemachus, to Odysseus
Methuselah, to Enoch
Louis Tiffany to Charles Tiffany
One of the Trinity
Charles, to Elizabeth
Piper's issue
"Art thou a woman's ___ . . . ": Shak.
Prodigal one
Heir, sometimes
William, to Di
Elliott, to Franklin D.
David, to Jesse
Absalom, to David
What 34 Across is to Woody
Last word of Kipling's "If"
Dombey's offspring
Nero, to Agrippina
Heir, often
"Dombey and ___"
Family member
Manasseh, to Joseph
Mercury, to Jupiter
Daughter's sib
Business partner, sometimes
Male heir
Sohrab, to Rustum
Dombey's kin
Offspring
Seth, to Adam
Lincoln's Tad, for one
Chip, to Jimmy
Paris, to Priam
Chip, to J.E.C.
Trinity figure
Descendant
Any man but Adam
Sea-cook's relative
John Quincy, to John
Step or grand follower
Male descendant
Word definitions for son in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a baby son/daughter/brother/sister ▪ We’d like a baby brother or sister for Ben. elder brother/son/sister/daughter etc ▪ His elder son Liam became a lawyer. eldest son/daughter/brother/child etc ▪ My eldest daughter...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Son \Son\, n. [OE. sone, sune, AS. sunu; akin to D. zoon, OS., OFries., & OHG. sunu, G. sohn, Icel. sonr, Sw. son, Dan. s["o]n, Goth. sunus, Lith. sunus, Russ. suin', Skr. s[=u]nu (from s[=u] to beget, to bear), and Gr. ? son. [root]293. Cf. Sow ,...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A male child, a boy or man in relation to his parents; one's male offspring. 2 A male adopted person in relation to his adoption parents. 3 A male person who has such a close relationship with an older or otherwise more authoritative person that he...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English sunu "son, descendant," from Proto-Germanic *sunuz (cognates: Old Saxon and Old Frisian sunu , Old Norse sonr , Danish søn , Swedish son , Middle Dutch sone , Dutch zoon , Old High German sunu , German Sohn , Gothic sunus "son"). The Germanic...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a male human offspring; "their son became a famous judge"; "his boy is taller than he is" [syn: boy ] [ant: daughter , daughter ] the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus) [syn: Word , Logos ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A son is a male offspring ; a boy or man in relation to his parents . The female counterpart is a daughter .
Usage examples of son.
They all shuffle, all these strange lonely children of God, these mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, husbands and wives whose noisy aberrations are safely muffled now by drugs.
Here was my wife, who had secretly aided and abetted her son in his design, and been the recipient of his hopes and fears on the subject, turning to me, who had dared to utter a feeble protest or two only to be scoffed at, and summarily sat upon, asking if the game was really safe.
The conflict, grown beyond the scope of original plans, had become nothing less than a fratricidal war between the young king and the Count of Poitou for the succession to the Angevin empire, a ghastly struggle in which Henry was obliged to take a living share, abetting first one and then the other of his furious sons.
But I have bethought me, that, since I am growing old and past the age of getting children, one of you, my sons, must abide at home to cherish me and your mother, and to lead our carles in war if trouble falleth upon us.
Instead of condemning his memory, he piously supposed, that the dying monarch had abjured the errors of Arianism, and recommended to his son the conversion of the Gothic nation.
Once was I taken of the foemen in the town where I abode when my lord was away from me, and a huge slaughter of innocent folk was made, and I was cast into prison and chains, after I had seen my son that I had borne to my lord slain before mine eyes.
The same women that despised Sky Eyes, that gossiped about her and futilely forbade their sons to come near her, they came for abortifacients, joint easers, the silvery drink that brought one out of a dark mood, a dozen other things.
If he wept at the sight of an old tapestry which represented the crime and punishment of the son of Chosroes, if his days were abridged by grief and remorse, we may allow some pity to a parricide, who exclaimed, in the bitterness of death, that he had lost both this world and the world to come.
Whether Walter West let him watch while he abused young girls, or whether he encouraged his son to take his place, or whether, in fact, he abused him directly Frederick West was never to reveal.
This was a subterfuge, by the aid of which he intended to open new negotiations respecting the form and conditions of the Regency of his son, in case of the Allied sovereigns acceding to that proposition.
Logos was particularly considered under the more accessible character of the Son of an Eternal Father, and the Creator and Governor of the world.
A short time after his accession, he conferred on his son Diadumenianus, at the age of only ten years, the Imperial title, and the popular name of Antoninus.
His fortunate son, from the first moment of his accession, declaring himself the protector of the church, at length deserved the appellation of the first emperor who publicly professed and established the Christian religion.
Very well, then, his name isDarian Acer, second son of the earl ofChesley .
Also, that he wanted papers to be drawn up to the effect that one thousand pounds a year was to be allotted to acertain lady in support of herself and her son.