sone

• (General American) IPA^(key): /soʊn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /səʊn/
• Rhymes: -əʊn
• Homophones: Saône, sewn, sown

sone (plural sones)

1. (acoustics) a subjective unit of loudness for an average listener equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz sound that has an intensity 40 decibels above the listener's own threshold of hearing

• ENSO, Enos, NEOs, Neso, eons, neos, noes, nose, one's, ones

• so'ne
• sonne

The usage of this term for plurals stems from the similarity or identity of female singular and (gender unspecific) plural declensions in German grammar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɔnə/

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• Homophone: Sonne
• IPA^(key): /ˈzoːnə/

sone

1. (colloquial) contraction of so eine (so, ein); inflected form of son, which is an alternative form of so'n
2. Ungrammatical alternative form of solch in plural.

sone

1. vocative singular of sonus

From Old Dutch *sunu, suno, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús.

sōne m

1. son

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• suene

• Dutch: zoon
  • Afrikaans: seun
• Limburgish: zoon, zoean
• West Flemish: zeune

• “sone (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “sone (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

From Old English sunu, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús.

• sune, sun, sonn, sonne, son

• IPA^(key): /ˈsun(ə)/

sone (plural sones)

1. son

• horesone
• sone in lawe

• English: son
• Scots: son

From Old English sōna, in turn from Proto-Germanic *sēna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoːn(ə)/
• Rhymes: -oːn(ə)

sone

1. soon

• English: soon
• Scots: sone, sune, schone

From Old English sunne.

sone

1. Alternative form of sonne

• “sonne (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 16 June 2018.

From Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”)

sone f or m (definite singular sona or sonen, indefinite plural soner, definite plural sonene)

1. a zone

• “sone” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”)

sone f (definite singular sona, indefinite plural soner, definite plural sonene)

1. a zone

• “sone” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

sone

1. dative singular of son