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
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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."
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Child as a noun:
a female child, a girl.
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Child as a noun:
One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
Examples:
"My youngest child is forty-three."
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Child as a noun (cartomancy):
The thirteenth Lenormand card.
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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."
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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."
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Son as a noun:
A male adopted person in relation to his adoption parents.
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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.
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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."
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Son as a noun:
A male descendant.
Examples:
"The pharaohs were believed to be sons of the Sun."
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Son as a noun:
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Son as a noun (UK, colloquial):
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Son as a verb (transitive):
To produce (i.e. bear, father, beget) a son.
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Son as a verb (transitive):
To address (someone) as "son".