Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person for whom another serves as sponsor at baptism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the liturgical churches, one for whom a person becomes sponsor (godfather or godmother) at baptism; a godson or goddaughter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See
godfather .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
child whosebaptism is sponsored by agodparent . In some cases the relationship is maintained indefinitely, with the godchild being treated much like a niece or nephew.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an infant who is sponsored by an adult (the godparent) at baptism
Etymologies
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Examples
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I didnt call you no names excep dere godchild and kid and you are both, and a godchild is a godchild and sometimes a kid is a goat and sometimes a goat is a kid and if you dont stop your kiddin you'll get my goat see?
Deer Godchild Marguerite Bernard
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* Today it will involve the rare and coveted godchild hat trick, which, I feel compelled to explain, does not mean shooting each of my three godchildren across ice into a net.
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A German quirk is that if women have seven or more children, the seventh automatically becomes the godchild of the serving president and receives a €500 gift.
Generous payments to parents aim to make Germany more family friendly 2011
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Well, Ursula as a character is a composite of two little faces in photos in my family stash: my daughter Maria, who looks as if she is 100 percent her daddy's, Finnish blue-eyed and blond, and my godchild Tian-Tian, the same age, who is 100 percent Chinese.
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Item the third: here's a cute photo of the existing beloved godchild, with me and The Jeff (not in that order).
"Going to Cuba is not like going to Connecticut." ashacat 2009
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My sister Lisa and me with my first godchild, Bartolina, at her christening.
Cake Boss Buddy Valastro 2010
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They have two beautiful children, Robert and Bartolina, who was my first godchild and was named after—who else?
Cake Boss Buddy Valastro 2010
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It gets worse: in a later mailing of her own, Betsy Butler points out that the first name on that list is the grandfather of her godchild.
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Eazyspeak French teaches 800 vocabulary words; quickly extends conversational skills un filleul fee-yul noun, masculine 1. godson, godchild
Savoir Vivre 2010
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Here is an email from Constance in Lansing, Michigan: Lucky me, my godchild and her husband and children live in D.C. My sister and I are coming from Indiana and Michigan and getting to share the trundle bed of her daughter.
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