Godmother

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A woman who sponsors a person at baptism.
  • n. One that has a relationship to another person or to something that is the equivalent of being a baptismal sponsor: the godmother to a new generation of physicians.
  • v. To serve as or as if a godmother to.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A woman present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner; a female godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child.
  • v. To act as godmother to.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See godfather
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See godfather, 1.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    godparent   
    Variant
    godfather   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    co-mother    cummer   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    godfather    ancestress