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GODMOTHER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("godmother" is a kind of...):
godparent (a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism)
Context examples:
You have devoured all when you were standing godmother.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Daisy, he said, with a smile—for though that's not the name your godfathers and godmothers gave you, it's the name I like best to call you by—and I wish, I wish, I wish, you could give it to me!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
From this time forth no one invited the cat to be godmother, but when the winter had come and there was no longer anything to be found outside, the mouse thought of their provision, and said: Come, cat, we will go to our pot of fat which we have stored up for ourselves—we shall enjoy that.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
So the pot was placed in safety, but it was not long before the cat had a great yearning for it, and said to the mouse: I want to tell you something, little mouse; my cousin has brought a little son into the world, and has asked me to be godmother; he is white with brown spots, and I am to hold him over the font at the christening.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
