scion

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[edit] English

[edit] Alternative spellings

Variant spellings[1]
  • β-forms (<c>-initial, <n>-terminal):
    • (15 th century):
    • (16 th century):
    • (17 th–18 th centuries):
    • (19 th century–present day):
      • cion (now chiefly in botanical senses)
  • δ-forms (<sc>-initial, <n>-terminal):
    • (14 th century):
    • (15 th century):
    • (16 th century):
      • scion
    • (17 th century):
    • (18 th–19 th centuries):
    • (20 th century–present day):
      • scion (standard spelling)

[edit] Etymology

From Old French cion, ciun, cyon, sion; cognate with French scion and Picard chion.[1]

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Noun

Singular
scion

Plural
scions

scion (plural scions)

  1. A descendant, a son or daughter.
  2. A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting.
  3. The heir to a throne.
  4. Also used as a synonym to "guardian".

[edit] Quotations

  • 1966, Sholem Aleichem, An Early Passover, Clifton Pub. Co., paperback edition, page 24
    It was said to him that those people were the scions of Zion.
  • 1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, Penguin, paperback edition, page 72
    He could show his parents Eliot, scion of Derek Moulthorp, and then how could they say he was throwing his life away?

[edit] Translations

descendant
detached shoot
heir to a throne

[edit] References

  • Notes:
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “scion” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]

[edit] Anagrams

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