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 whose baptism is sponsored by a godparent. 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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god +‎ child

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Examples

  • 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

  • * 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.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2009

  • 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

  • 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.

    Ingrid Hill - An interview with author 2010

  • 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

  • My sister Lisa and me with my first godchild, Bartolina, at her christening.

    Cake Boss Buddy Valastro 2010

  • They have two beautiful children, Robert and Bartolina, who was my first godchild and was named after—who else?

    Cake Boss Buddy Valastro 2010

  • 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.

    Robert J. Elisberg: The Butler Didn't Do It 2010

  • Eazyspeak French teaches 800 vocabulary words; quickly extends conversational skills un filleul fee-yul noun, masculine 1. godson, godchild

    Savoir Vivre 2010

  • 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.

    No, You Can't: Turning Down Inauguration Guests 2009

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