Godmother

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  • 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See godfather, 1.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See godfather
    • 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 a Christian manner; a female godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child.
  • verb. To act as godmother to.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism
    • Word Usage
    "When I got home I called my godmother, Ann Ward, for advice on this spiritual conflict before me."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    godparent  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ancestress  godfather  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    co-mother  cummer  
    variant
    godfather  
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