GODMOTHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does godmother mean? 

• GODMOTHER (noun)
  The noun GODMOTHER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: GODMOTHER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GODMOTHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("godmother" is a kind of...):

godparent (a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism)

 Context examples 

She is godmother to a real living Betsey Trotwood; and Dora (the next in order) says she spoils her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

All good things go in threes, said she, I am asked to stand godmother again.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It was the gift of her good godmother, old Mrs. Admiral Maxwell, only six weeks before she was taken for death.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I shan't let anyone see you till you are done, and then we'll burst upon them like Cinderella and her godmother going to the ball, said Belle in her persuasive tone.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

All this, however, was untrue; the cat had no cousin, and had not been asked to be godmother.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I intend to be her godmother, and I beg you'll call her Betsey Trotwood Copperfield.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My own Betsey (fondling her), you have not the luck of such a good godmother.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The feeble fingers were never idle, and one of her pleasures was to make little things for the school children daily passing to and fro, to drop a pair of mittens from her window for a pair of purple hands, a needlebook for some small mother of many dolls, penwipers for young penmen toiling through forests of pothooks, scrapbooks for picture-loving eyes, and all manner of pleasant devices, till the reluctant climbers of the ladder of learning found their way strewn with flowers, as it were, and came to regard the gentle giver as a sort of fairy godmother, who sat above there, and showered down gifts miraculously suited to their tastes and needs.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I am again asked to be godmother, and, as the child has a white ring round its neck, I cannot refuse.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It was a gleam of light upon me, Trot, said my aunt, drying her eyes, when I formed the resolution of being godmother to your sister Betsey Trotwood, who disappointed me; but, next to that, hardly anything would have given me greater pleasure, than to be godmother to that good young creature's baby!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)