(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.
Granddaughter
Definition:
(n.) The daughter of one's son or daughter.
Example Sentences:
(1) (Observer, June 2013) Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , 40 Current job: MP Nicknames: The harpist, "Madame Condescendante" (Bertrand Delanoë), "L'emmerdeuse" (Pain in the neck – Jacques Chirac) Campaign slogan: Une nouvelle énergie pour les Parisiens (A new energy for Parisians) Born: Paris Family: Daughter of a local mayor, granddaughter of a former French ambassador and great-granddaughter of one of the founder members of the French Communist party.
(2) David, remember, was a woman who chose to cook – the granddaughter of a viscount, she had grown up in a house with staff - and as such, her work appealed to the upper middle classes rather than to the massed ranks of housewives in their new Formica-filled kitchens.
(3) Faten, 70, now living in Cairo, said she went without food to provide for her granddaughters, aged nine and 11.
(4) Speaking in Hindi (her granddaughters translate for her with doctors), Chauhan says she did not tell her friends about the cancer.
(5) Some of her appeal – or so her husband's campaign team must hope – largely lies in her journey from the granddaughter of a coalminer and the second cousin of a Welsh rugby star to, potentially, the powerhouse of western democracy.
(6) As I wrote then: "This clever, comprehensive-educated granddaughter of a miner served in government for more than a decade but retained the ability to speak human – a rare quality among New Labour politicians."
(7) I just want justice for my granddaughter,” Roe said.
(8) I am so sorry about the last message - it was part of the radio show, it was a mistake … The truth is I am phoning you to ask if I can marry - that's right, marry - Georgina the granddaughter.
(9) Heritability estimates, by year of freshening of daughter, were obtained from daughter-dam and granddaughter-granddam regressions using 61,482 triply matched first lactations of artificially sired Holstein cows obtained from the Northeast Dairy Records Processing Laboratory.
(10) She has a daughter, who is eight, but Miriama refuses to take her to visit her mother, who still lives in Africa and has never met her granddaughter, in case the child is snatched and taken to be cut, as Miriama's mother did to her.
(11) It is no accident, therefore, that his granddaughter Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics.
(12) The anti-apartheid icon had kept a low profile during the tournament, having cancelled plans to attend the opening ceremony after his great-granddaughter died in a car crash the night before.
(13) Bernardi said he had discussions with fellow Liberal backbencher, Jo Lindgren, who has Aboriginal heritage and is the granddaughter of the first Indigenous MP Neville Bonner, on what the certificate could mean.
(14) Mandela's eldest granddaughter Ndileka Mandela was among family members who visited him in hospital on Monday.
(15) "I'm a reasonable man with four daughters and a 10-year-old granddaughter but there are certain things that get my goat.
(16) Leonie Gombrich, his granddaughter and literary executor, described his change of heart when we met last week in New York.
(17) In the messages, pre-recorded and broadcast on Radio 2 late on Saturday October 18, the pair alluded to Brand having had sex with Sachs' granddaughter, Georgina Baillie.
(18) A couple of years ago I had lunch at Carluccio’s in Covent Garden with my breastfeeding daughter and my granddaughter.
(19) The daughters of this male are mentally normal and their fragile site is difficult or impossible to detect but detection of the heterozygous genotype is much easier among the granddaughters.
(20) Nelson Mandela at 93 with (from left) his granddaughter Zaziwe, great-granddaughter Ziphokazi, daughter Zenani, granddaughter Zamaswazi and great-granddaughter Zamakhosi.