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Definition: Godchild |
GodchildNoun1. An infant who is sponsored by an adult (the godparent) at baptism. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "godchild" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1911. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Security | Sponsor, cosponsor, sponsion, sponsorship; surety, bail; mainpernor, hostage; godchild, godfather, godmother. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Godchild |
| English words defined with "godchild": Apostle spoon ♦ goddaughter, godfather, godparent, godson. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Godchild (1974) | |
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| "Godchild" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Godchild" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "godchild"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fijan, famull (godson). (various references) | |
Arabic | إبن او إبنة بالمعمودية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кръщелниче, кръщелник (godson). (various references) | |
Chinese | 教子 (godson). (various references) | |
Czech | kmotřenec (godson). (various references) | |
Farsi | فرزندخوانده (Stepchild, Stepson), بچه تعمیدی . (various references) | |
French | filleul (godson). (various references) | |
German | patenkind (godson). (various references) | |
Greek | βαπτιστικόσ (baptismal), βαφτιστήρι. (various references) | |
Hungarian | keresztgyermek. (various references) | |
Italian | figlioccio (godson). (various references) | |
Korean | 대자녀. (various references) | |
Norwegian | gudbarn. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | odchildgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | afilhado (godson). (various references) | |
Romanian | fin (beautiful, choice, delicate, delicately, discriminating, excellent, fine, fine-drawn, finely, fine-spun, godson, gossamer, graceful, keen, nice, penetrating, quick, refined, select, sharp, shrewd, slender, soft, spidery, subtile, subtly, tenuous). (various references) | |
Russian | крестница (goddaughter), крестник (godson). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kumče (goddaughter, godson). (various references) | |
Spanish | ahijado (godson). (various references) | |
Swedish | gudbarn. (various references) | |
Thai | ลูกอุปถัมภ์. (various references) | |
Turkish | vaftiz çocuğu. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | con đỡ đầu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "godchild": godchildren. (additional references) | |
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"Godchild" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Godschall. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-d-g-h-i-l-o" | |
-1 letter: glochid. | |
-3 letters: child, dildo, dolci, logic. | |
-4 letters: chid, clod, clog, coil, cold, dido, diol, gild, gold, hold, idol, lich, lido, loch, loci, odic. | |
-5 letters: chi, cig, cod, cog, col, did, dig, doc, dog, dol, ghi, gid, god, hic, hid, hod, hog, ich, lid, log, odd, oil, old. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-d-g-h-i-l-o" | |
+3 letters: godchildren. | |
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