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sony

UK/ˈsəʊni//ˈsoʊni/

sony is the alternative spelling of sonny.

Meaning of sonny

Noun

sonny (plural sonnies)

  1. (dated) A familiar form of address for a boy.
  2. (colloquial, dated, derogatory) Form of address to a boy or man, to express contempt, warning etc.
    Synonyms:
    friend, buster, buddy, pal

See all 5 meanings of sonny

Proper noun capitalized: Sony

Sony

  1. (trademark) An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan.
    • he mostly makes videos—virtually reinventing the diary form with his Sony 8 scrapbook.1993, Martha Gever, Pratibha Parmar, John Greyson, Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video, Routledge, →ISBN, page 76
    • Bernstein always understood this symphony, and his Sony recording was for many years one of the best.2002, Alexander J. Morin, Classical Music: The Listener's Companion, Backbeat Books, →ISBN, page 98

Noun capitalized: Sony

Sony (plural Sonys)

  1. A device produced by Sony.
    • Connie Chung, the pretty Chinese CBS correspondent, occupied the room next to mine at the Hyatt House and she was always back by midnight, reciting a final sixty-second radio spot into her Sony or absorbing one last press release before getting a good night’s sleep.1980, Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus, Ballantine Books,, →ISBN, page 16
    • It’s not clear what the witch doctors are doing, but the scientists have been wandering the riverbank with their Sonys or Hitachis, playing the recorded chirpings of newly hatched crocodiles in hopes of either stirring maternal instinct in the (almost surely) female man-eater or tempting her to...1990, Peter Hathaway Capstick, Death in a Lonely Land: More Hunting, Fishing, and Shooting on Five Continents, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 255

Forms of sony

pluralSonys

Origin of sony

A combination of Latin sonus (“sound”) and sonny (“boy”, diminutive).

Words formed from sony

Phrases with sony

Words that rhyme with sony

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Questions about sony

What does sony mean?
Sony means an international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan.
What is sony the alternative spelling of?
Sony is the alternative spelling of sonny.
What part of speech is sony?
Sony can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce sony?
Sony is pronounced /ˈsəʊni/ (UK).

Words near sony in the dictionary

  1. sonuva
  2. sonuvabitch
  3. sonuvabitches
  4. sonuvvabitch
  5. sonuvvabitches
  6. sony
  7. Sony ponies
  8. Sony pony
  9. Sonya
  10. Sonys
  11. Sonyverse

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sony (page history and authors); Sony (page history and authors); sonny (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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