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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
goddaughter
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ This goddaughter of mine is a splendid laugher.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Goddaughter

Goddaughter \God"daugh`ter\, n. [AS. goddohtor.] A female for whom one becomes sponsor at baptism.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
goddaughter

girl one sponsors at her baptism, mid-13c., from god + daughter.

Wiktionary
goddaughter

n. A female child whose baptism is sponsored by a godparent.

WordNet
goddaughter

n. a female godchild

Usage examples of "goddaughter".

He greeted her with his cool civility, and she replied with tolerable composure, thanking him for his kind offices, in Leicestershire, towards her goddaughter.

She was a goddaughter of old Mary Wortley Montagu: and, like that famous old woman of the last century, made considerable pretensions to be a blue-stocking and a bel esprit.

Anthea was Tuppence's goddaughter and Anthea's daughter Jane was at schoolher first termand it was Prize Giving and Anthea had rung upher two younger children had come out in a measles rash and she had nobody in the house to help and Jane would be terribly disappointed if nobody cameCould Tuppence possibly?