godmother

The definition of a godmother is a woman who is an advisor to a child.

(noun)

A woman who serves as a sponsor of a child when the child is baptized is an example of a godmother.

See godmother in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

See godmother in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A woman 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 godmother to a new generation of physicians.

transitive verb god·moth·ered, god·moth·er·ing, god·moth·ers

To serve as or as if a godmother to.

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