The difference between Child and Son

When used as nouns, child means a person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority), whereas son means one's male offspring.


Son is also verb with the meaning: to produce (i.e. bear, father, beget) a son.

check bellow for the other definitions of Child and Son

  1. Child as a noun:

    A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority)

    Examples:

    "Go easy on him: he is but a child."

  2. Child as a noun:

    a female child, a girl.

  3. Child as a noun:

    One's son or daughter, regardless of age.

    Examples:

    "My youngest child is forty-three."

  4. Child as a noun (cartomancy):

    The thirteenth Lenormand card.

  5. Child as a noun (computing):

    A figurative offspring, particularly: A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age. Anything derived from or caused by something. A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.

    Examples:

    "The children of Israel."

    "He is a child of his times."

    "Poverty, disease, and despair are the children of war."

    "The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node."

  1. Son as a noun:

    One's male offspring.

    Examples:

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

  2. Son as a noun:

    A male adopted person in relation to his adoption parents.

  3. Son as a noun:

    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. Son as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "He was a son of the mafia system."

  5. Son as a noun:

    A male descendant.

    Examples:

    "The pharaohs were believed to be sons of the Sun."

  6. Son as a noun:

  7. Son as a noun (UK, colloquial):

  1. Son as a verb (transitive):

    To produce (i.e. bear, father, beget) a son.

  2. Son as a verb (transitive):

    To address (someone) as "son".