GODSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does godson mean? 

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

1. a male godchild

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GODSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A male godchild

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

godchild (an infant who is sponsored by an adult (the godparent) at baptism)

 Context examples 

Elizabeth was again deep in thought, and after a time exclaimed, “To treat in such a manner the godson, the friend, the favourite of his father!”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Wickham is the son of a very respectable man, who had for many years the management of all the Pemberley estates, and whose good conduct in the discharge of his trust naturally inclined my father to be of service to him; and on George Wickham, who was his godson, his kindness was therefore liberally bestowed.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)