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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
godmother
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fairy godmother
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alix's godmother, also named Alix, had once been to a ball in Vienna.
▪ Before Cinderella is to meet the prince, her godmother appears and equips her with beautiful clothes.
▪ My regard for her was reflected in the fact that I asked her to be my son, Giles's godmother.
▪ She was my godmother after all.
▪ The parents had even asked Allitt to become Katie's godmother.
▪ There's also a big, gold jewellery box that was given to me by my godmother.
▪ Your godmother is bedridden, Mr Beckenham.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Godmother

Godmother \God"moth`er\, n. [AS. godm[=o]dor.] A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See Godfather

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
godmother

woman who sponsors one at baptism, late 13c., from god + mother (n.1); modifying or replacing Old English godmodor.

Wiktionary
godmother

n. 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. vb. (context transitive English) To act as godmother to.

WordNet
godmother

n. any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism

Wikipedia
Godmother

A godmother is a female godparent in the Christian tradition.

Godmother may also refer to:

  • A female arranged to be legal guardian of a child if untimely demise is met by the parents
  • Godmother (cocktail), a cocktail made with Italian Amaretto liqueur and vodka
  • Godmother (film), a Hindi film
  • The Godmother (film), a 2011 Romanian film 1
  • Griselda Blanco (nickname)
Godmother (film)

Godmother is a 1999 Hindi biographical drama film directed by Vinay Shukla released in 1999, and ostensibly inspired by the life of Santokben Jadeja, who ran the Mafia operations of Porbandar, Gujarat in the late 1980s and early 1990s and later turned politician.

Usage examples of "godmother".

Surely a fellow as greedy as the duke would not miss the fact that the Queen of Ginseng had to be the most valuable plant on the face of the earth, and with Jade Pearl as his captive, he would probably have been able to capture her godmother as well.

I did not feel any curiosity to know the name of the he or she saint whom her godmothers had constituted her patron at the baptismal font.

He asked Lazzaro if he planned to feed the Blue Fairy Godmother clock springs and steak.

More lovesick layabouts, he thought darkly, and rose to send them on their way, but paused when Kate and her fairy godmother, looking very pleased with themselves, entered the kitchen.

Many and eternal thanks to my editor, Lauren McKenna, who has played the most amazing of faery godmothers to this story since the moment of its conception with her insight, creativity, and patience, and to my agent, Timothy Seldes, whose kind support and brilliant judgment are gifts I will always cherish and pray I will never lose.

What the Camellia Buds ought to do is to turn the sorority into an Amalgamated Society of Fairy Godmothers, and each of us take over a junior to look after and act providence to.

Born Giuseppe Balsamo, he took the title of Count Alessandro Cagliostro from his godmother.

I was innocent and protected by the umbrella of Pops and Sweetheart, and Aunt Queen, who was ever like a fairy godmother, dipping down to Earth only now and then with her stacked heels and invisible wings.

Perhaps it had been with this hope already at the back of her mind that she had invited her school-friend, Arabella Haverhill, who had contracted such a brilliant match, to stand as godmother to her infant daughter.

His godmother buys him toy trains and toy this and toy that, and he has to fool around with that and make a mess!

ALFONSA was both grandaunt and godmother to the girl and her life at the hacienda invested it with oldworld ties and with antiquity and tradition.

They made her feel as if each one of the Godmothers held a magnifying glass and was subjecting her to a silent, full-spectrum, Sherlock Holmesian examination.

The occult philosophy seems to have been the nurse or the godmother of all religions, the secret lever of all the intellectual forces, the key of all divine obscurities, and the absolute Queen of Society, in the ages when it was exclusively reserved for the education of the Priests and Kings.

Occult philosophy the godmother of religions, the key of obscurities, 729-l.

Joseph, and still other cities whose names have never been heard by the people--of France--even as Phoenicia, in the wanderings of her adventurous son, Cadmus, became the mother of Thebes and the godmother of Greek culture and of European literature.