SCION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scion mean? 

• SCION (noun)
  The noun SCION has 1 sense:

1. a descendent or heir

  Familiarity information: SCION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A descendent or heir

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

a scion of royal stock

Hypernyms ("scion" is a kind of...):

descendant; descendent (a person considered as descended from some ancestor)

 Context examples 

He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The Draculas were, says Arminius, a great and noble race, though now and again were scions who were held by their coevals to have had dealings with the Evil One.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of gentlest genealogy; and that the germs of native excellence, refinement, intelligence, kind feeling, are as likely to exist in their hearts as in those of the best-born.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was indeed a scion of one of the very oldest families in the kingdom, though his branch was a cadet one which had separated from the northern Musgraves some time in the sixteenth century, and had established itself in western Sussex, where the Manor House of Hurlstone is perhaps the oldest inhabited building in the county.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)