scion
nounEtymology
From Middle English sion, sioun, syon, scion, cion, from Old French cion, ciun, cyon, sion, from Frankish *kīþō, *kīþ, from Proto-Germanic *kīþô, *kīþą, *kīþaz (“sprout”), from Proto-Indo-European *geye- (“to split open, sprout”), same source as Old English ċīþ (“a young shoot; sprout; germ; sprig”), Old Saxon kīth (“sprout; germ”), Old High German kīdi (“offshoot; sprout; germ”). See also French scion and Picard chion. Doublet of chit.
Definitions
A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.
- Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends.
- It was said to him that those people were the scions of Zion.
The heir to a throne.
A guardian.
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A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting
A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting; a shoot or twig in a general sense.
- He used to think that the plums in this country weren’t good enough, and so he has reformed them, grafting scion to rootstock.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for scion. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA