Definitions
a descendant or heir
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“It was said to him that those people were the scions of Zion.”
“He could show his parents Eliot, scion of Derek Moulthorp, and then how could they say he was throwing his life away?”
“It also made her the target of angry derision back in South Korea, where Ms. Cho is the scion of one of the wealthy families that control much of South Korea’s export-driven economy.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Family heir”5 letters
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