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godmother

[ god-muhth-er ]

noun

  1. a woman who serves as sponsor for a child at baptism.
  2. any female sponsor or guardian.


verb (used with object)

  1. to act as godmother to; sponsor.

godmother

/ ˈɡɒdˌmʌðə /

noun

  1. a female godparent


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Word History and Origins

Origin of godmother1

before 1000; Middle English; Old English godmōdor; god, mother 1

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Example Sentences

Virtual Kim swans in every so often to dish out advice like a buxom fairy godmother.

The boy had been back at the playground with his godmother early Sunday evening when he decided he wanted an ice.

The monster was still beyond imagining when Prince, known as P.J., told his godmother that he wanted an Italian ice.

Singled out for opprobrium was the planned exhibit on Margaret Sanger, birth-control crusader and godmother of Planned Parenthood.

A former legislative director of Ohio Right to Life, Porter is in many ways the godmother of the heartbeat movement.

Belle was to be godmother and had to be got down; which was impossible, as the jester Euclid says.

Her godmother had twice written to her, and Babette was now hoping to see her and her daughters in Interlaken.

Half-way up stood the74 boarding-house where the godmother was living.

Two thousand pounds a year left you by your godmother; the very same you told us you know.

I was up at the castle a great deal, because the Baroness Maximiliana of Wallersttten was my godmother.

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