(n.) One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
Example Sentences:
(1) A German quirk is that if women have seven or more children, the seventh automatically becomes the godchild of the serving president and receives a €500 gift.
Godson
Definition:
(n.) A male for whom one has stood sponsor in baptism. See Godfather.
Example Sentences:
(1) He knows exactly how to hydrate his body to just the right degree, ” his godson Nicholas Knatchbull told her.
(2) The cloned Escherichia coli cca gene, described in the accompanying paper (Cudny, H., Lupski, J. R., Godson, G. N., and Deutscher, M. P. (1986) J. Biol.
(3) Her godson had a club foot and is "a wonderful person".
(4) When this row broke out last summer Tory apologists such as Iain Dale, Stephen Pollard, and Dean Godson went into overdrive along with politicians such as William Hague and Daniel Hannan in denouncing reporters like the Observer's Toby Helm, the Guardian's Ian Traynor and the New Statesman's James Macintyre for revealing the sordid background of politicians David Cameron had chosen as his allies in place of mainstream centre-right European parties.
(5) Other friends include Peter Mandelson, Hugh Grant and Elton John, whose elder son, Zachary, is Lebedev's godson.