godfather

(gädfä′t̸hər)

noun

  1. a male godparent
  2. a man who acts as an advisor or mentor to someone
    1. Informal the head of a Mafia family or syndicate
    2. Slang any person having much influence or authority in some area

See godfather in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. A man who sponsors a person at baptism.
  2. 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.
  3. 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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