Scion definition

Scion

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noun

(1) A descendent or heir

"A scion of royal stock"

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Alternative spellings

-forms (vowel>-initial, -terminal):

- - sioun
  - syoun
- - syon
  - syun
- - sien
  - sion
  - syen
  - syon
  - syun
- - seyon
  - sien
  - syen

-forms (-initial, -terminal):

- - cyun
- - cion
- - cien
  - cion
  - cyen
  - cyon
- - cion

-forms ([s]- or [t]-terminal):

- - science
  - scyence
  - siens
  - sient
- - cions
  - cyence
  - cyens
  - cyons
  - sciance
  - science
  - scient
  - sience
  - siens
  - sient

-forms (-initial, -terminal):

- - scyon
- - scion
  - scioun
- - scion
- - scien
  - scion
  - scyen
- - scion
  - scyon
- - scion

Etymology

From , , , ; cognate with French and Picard .

Noun

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

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?

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