Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman who sponsors a person at baptism.
- noun One that has a relationship to another person or to something that is the equivalent of being a baptismal sponsor.
- transitive verb To serve as or as if a godmother to.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See
godfather , 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See
godfather
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A woman present at the
christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in aChristian manner; a femalegodparent who sponsors thebaptism of a child. - verb transitive To act as godmother to.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism
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Examples
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When I got home I called my godmother, Ann Ward, for advice on this spiritual conflict before me.
Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons Greg Fitzsimmons 2010
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You know, I want to embrace the word godmother so it doesn't have that connotation and sort of - oh, it means you're an old spinster.
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In time the viscountess became known as the godmother of the ballet, and she, more than any other person, pushed the career of Raymundo de Larrain.
The Rockefeller and the Ballet Boys Dunne, Dominick 1987
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'And then you'll come up to aunt's room -- I call godmother aunt now -- and take tea with Gorman and us all.'
Lord Kilgobbin Charles James Lever 1839
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The post-revolution committee to revise the constitution is all male, and El Saadawi, who has been called the godmother of Egyptian feminism, was angry.
The New Yorker Jenna Krajeski 2011
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If you don’t want to worry about it, just make sure that your fairy godmother is a damn good midwife and herbalist.
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Before Patti Smith earned the name the godmother of punk, she was - well, that's the subject of her memoir, "Just Kids," which is a National Book Award Finalist and is out next week in paperback.
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Before Patti Smith earned the name the godmother of punk, she was - well, that's the subject of her memoir, "Just Kids," which is a National Book Award Finalist and is out next week in paperback.
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Dubbed the "godmother" of consumer-driven health care by Money magazine, Herzlinger notes that boomers as a generation are busier and better educated than previous generations and not shy about voicing their unhappiness.
Doctors Making Housecalls: 8 Ways Post 50s Are Transforming Health Care The Huffington Post 2012
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Transplanted New Yorker Becky Wasserman, also known as the godmother of Burgundy, told me a story about entertaining a client at a restaurant in Bouilland, a few miles up the road from Savigny.
The Death-Defying Values of Savigny-lès-Beaune Jay McInerney 2011
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