filial

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Pertaining to or befitting a son or daughter.

   “The filial duty Ellesmere had paid to a father, who had no other claim to it than that he was his father, was now consoling to him [D'Alonville]; […]”

2. sıfat Respectful of the duties and attitudes of sons or daughters toward their parents.

   “If the admonition [to the parent] does not take effect, the son will be more reverential and more filial; […]”

3. sıfat Of a generation or generations descending from a specific previous one.

   “This, following Bateson, we may call the parental generation or P generation. Subsequent generations are called filial generations (abbreviated F) and their numerical order is indicated by a subscript, as first filial (F₁), second filial (F₂), etc.”