godfather
(gäd′fä′t̸hər)
noun
- a male godparent
- a man who acts as an advisor or mentor to someone
- ☆
- Informal the head of a Mafia family or syndicate
- Slang any person having much influence or authority in some area
See godfather in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun- A man who sponsors a person at baptism.
- One that has a relationship to another person or to something that is the equivalent of being a baptismal sponsor: the godfather of a new generation of nuclear physicists.
- Slang The leader of an organized crime family.
transitive verb god·fa·thered,
god·fa·ther·ing,
god·fa·thers To serve as or as if a godfather to.
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