(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.
Nephew
Definition:
(n.) A grandson or grandchild, or remoter lineal descendant.
(n.) A cousin.
(n.) The son of a brother or a sister, or of a brother-in-law or sister-in-law.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ibd for grandparent-grandchild pairs is least affected by recombination, followed by sibs, half-sib, uncle-nephew, and first-cousin pairs.
(2) Zhang Gaoping, 47, told state media that he and his nephew were subject to seven days of brutal interrogation before trial – sleep deprivation, starvation, cigarette burns.
(3) The striker, who is Agnew’s nephew, joined Boro for £11m from Blackburn Rovers in January but Karanka has since struggled to find room for him in his preferred 4-2-3-1 formation and Rhodes has started only four of a possible eight games, scoring one goal.
(4) The burned epidermis was removed and each burn wound was assigned to one of the following treatment groups: (1) air-exposed, (2) DuoDERM (hydrocolloid dressing; Squibb Co., New Jersey), (3) Opsite (polyurethane dressing; Smith & Nephew, New Jersey), or (4) experimental cream.
(5) Johnson’s family paid tribute to the “exceptional son, brother, grandson and nephew”.
(6) Wanda Mintz said her nephew tried to crawl away but could not move because of his wounds.
(7) In an article for the Guardian, the author Ahdaf Soueif, Laila's sister, described her nephew as a "central, charismatic figure" who "embodies some of the core aspects of the Egyptian revolution".
(8) Lorien Carter said her nephew had been “a beautiful young man”.
(9) After she died I was sent away to a school and six years on I received a letter – as you do – saying that a Mr John Jarndyce wanted me to be a companion to his niece and nephew.
(10) At the same time you get an email from your nephew's friend asking you to sponsor them for the marathon, also in aid of Crisis.
(11) Abraham’s uncle, who is already looking after three sets of orphaned relatives, said he would care for his nephew despite struggling to feed his enlarged family.
(12) Then, a couple of days later , an unknown man claiming to be her nephew popped up on national TV.
(13) Karimova blamed her latest problems firmly on her mother, who she claimed had promised to "destroy" her for trying (unsuccessfully) in October to prevent the arrest of Akbarali Abdullayev, Gulnara Karimova's cousin and Tatyana Karimova's nephew, who she suggested knew too much about the allegedly shady business affairs of his aunt.
(14) It was not immediately clear if Miyazawa - a nephew of late prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa and a cousin of foreign minister Fumio Kishida - would step down.
(15) Linyi City authorities have imprisoned his 33-year-old nephew Chen Kegui for defending himself against stick-wielding officials and security agents on the night of Chen's escape .
(16) The occurrence of breast cancer in two related males, an uncle and nephew is reported.
(17) Madison police chief says officer shooting of unarmed man has similarities to Ferguson Read more On Friday evening, Lorien Carter spoke to a crowd in front of the building in Madison, Wisconsin where her nephew, Anthony Terrell Robinson, was earlier shot and killed by a police officer, Matt Kenny.
(18) He was too short of breath to kick a football around with his nephew or walk anywhere with his friends.
(19) So instead, he set off for Europe in a group of six, with about $8,000 to pay for the journey of a brother, sister-in-law, nephew, cousin and friend, a trek that has lasted a month and a half already.
(20) The son of Malaysia's second prime minister, the nephew of its third, president of the dominant United Malays National Organisation (Umno), and a former defence minister, Najib was born to power and is accustomed to wielding it.