Definition of "godfather" []

• A man who sponsors a person at baptism. (noun)
• One that has a relationship to another person or to something that is the equivalent of being a baptismal sponsor: the godfather of a new generation of nuclear physicists. (noun)
• Slang The leader of an organized crime family. (noun)
• To serve as or as if a godfather to. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "She tried to remember what Effie had said about Luca and if the word godfather played a part in the conversation."
• "Unless, of course, your fairy godfather is Vlad the Impaler."
• "He has been referred to as the "godfather" of blogging in the Gulf nation."