HOW TO PRONOUNCE
scion
/ˈsaɪ.ən/
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SY-un: the first part rhymes with “my.”
The sc supplies a single s sound. Let the long i move into a light uh before the final n.
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“The novel follows the scion of a once-wealthy family.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does scion mean?
noun
- A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.
- The heir to a throne.
- A guardian.
More meanings (1)
noun
- A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting; a shoot or twig in a general sense.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsaɪ.ən/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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In the pages of books
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“Was he proud,--a true scion of the stock Which bore the blazon, shall make bright my page”-- XII.
I call for a scion of the Mason-bee of the Sheds who shall live by the art of breaking through ceilings.
More book examples (3)
Cosette was the only scion of an extinct family; Cosette was not his own daughter, but the daughter of the other Fauchelevent.
You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race.
The smiling grocer, in his everlasting bonnet and flowered dressing-gown a la J. J. Rousseau, was ever ready to oblige the needy scion of a noble house.