son of the soil

English

Noun

son of the soil (plural sons of the soil)

  1. A person regarded as the product of some place.
    • 2025 October 10, “Balijatra to celebrate classical Odia language, its authors in 2025”, in The New Indian Express‎[1]:
      The highlight will be the Odia authors and sons of the soil who worked on the language during the period beginning from 15th century poet and scholar Sarala Das till 1947, and their literary contributions.
  2. (poetic) A man raised in an environment of agricultural labour.

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