English

Alternative forms

• SONE

Noun

Sone ‎(plural Sones)

1. (slang) A fan of the South Korean girl group Girls' Generation.
   • 2012, Sithikorn Wongwudthianun, "Yes, I am a Sone", The Bangkok Post, 7 February 2012, page 2:

     The band is known as SNSD (acronym of Korean name So Nyuh Shi Dae). SNSD fans are called Sone^[sic] and, yes, I am a Sone.

   • 2014, Lainey, Mr.Mr. review, Campus Life, Issue #89, May 2014, page 60:

     Their six-track EP, 'Mr.Mr' comes packed with electro and R&B infused songs that SONEs (as SNSD Girls' Generation fans are lovingly called) can dance and sing along to.

   • 2014, Johanna Teo and Chew Hui Ling, "Girls Generation Uncovered!", Teenage, Issue 305, May 2014, page 45:

     Way to go SONEs, the fan chants during the dance break was^[sic] so rad!

References

1. ↑ Jeff Yang, "Why Girls’ Generation and K-Pop Won Big at the YouTube Music Awards", Wall Street Journal, 4 November 2013

English

Noun

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

Anagrams

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

German

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• so'ne
• sonne

Pronoun

sone

1. (colloquial) Contraction of so eine. (so, ein)
2. Ungrammatical alternative form of solch in plural.

   Wer macht denn sonne Sachen?

   Who would do such things?

Latin

Noun

sone

1. vocative singular of sonus

Middle Dutch

Alternative forms

• suene

Etymology

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

Noun

sōne m

1. son

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: zoon, (Western Belgium) zeun
  • Afrikaans: seun

Middle English

Noun

sone (plural sones)

1. son

Descendants

• English: son

Adverb

sone

1. soon

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. a zone

Derived terms

• eurosone
• flyforbudssone
• gråsone
• tidssone

References

• “sone” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. a zone

Derived terms

• eurosone
• gråsone
• tidssone

References

• “sone” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Volapük

Noun

sone

1. dative singular of son