(n.) A female for whom one becomes sponsor at baptism.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'd always used a food processor but I had started to make cakes with my goddaughter.
(2) His exes were attractive, intelligent women such as Sheena McDonald, the television presenter, Marion Caldwell, a lawyer, and, most surprisingly, given his rather heavy reputation, Princess Margarita of Romania, Prince Philip's goddaughter, whom he met at university.
(3) The president’s other son-in-law – the Dutch businessman Jorrit Joost Faassen, married to Roldugin’s goddaughter Masha – is said to be a former employee.
(4) Criddy1979 is justifiably proud of the very professional knitted dress and cap she designed for her goddaughter.
(5) Probably my favourite picture in the slideshow is of my goddaughter Klara, standing on a paint can singing, with scarves wrapped around her.
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.