Definition of "godmother" []

• A woman 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 godmother to a new generation of physicians. (noun)
• To serve as or as if a godmother 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.

• "When I got home I called my godmother, Ann Ward, for advice on this spiritual conflict before me."
• "You know, I want to embrace the word godmother so it doesn't have that connotation and sort of - oh, it means you're an old spinster."
• "In time the viscountess became known as the godmother of the ballet, and she, more than any other person, pushed the career of Raymundo de Larrain."