[
US
/ˈɡɑdˌməðɝ/
]
[ UK /ɡˈɒdmʌðɐ/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈɒdmʌðɐ/ ]
NOUN
- any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism
How To Use godmother In A Sentence
- Those friendships have continued: I'm godmother to one of my friend's two children, and our children are friends.
- According to Guyanese tradition, a female child will have two godmothers and one godfather, and a male child will have two godfathers and one godmother.
- They prance and strut in front of the mirrors, as if their fairy godmother has waved her wand and said: ‘You shall go to the ball!’
- The fairy godmother waved her magic wand over the cabbages and they turned into horses.
- Around her neck she wore a necklace of amber beads that she had inherited from her Great Aunt Caroline, who had also been her godmother.
- This was the freest and most fully resolved work I've seen from her, and I'm certain that Farrell's serving as godmother to it is no coincidence.
- At age 83, she continues with us, strong as ever, and even more honored by her beloved community of poets - especially the community of black poets to whom she is a pioneering example and godmother.
- (She has been called a transcendentalist, a shaman, ‘the godmother of punk’ and a Sufi poet).
- If the stepchildren are very young, think of yourself as an aunt or godmother figure. Times, Sunday Times
- Fairy godmother: You look so lovely, my dear.