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Definition: Godmother |
GodmotherNoun1. Any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "godmother" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (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: Godmother |
| English words defined with "godmother": Cinderella. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "godmother": HORSE GODMOTHER ♦ Vera Causa. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "godmother": Madrina. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Godmother (1912) Scary Godmother Halloween Spooktakular (2003) Godmother (1999) The Godmother (1988) Godmother (1975) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rosemary Clooney | Sure, wonderful singer. Anyway Billie and Tony were really close friends so when I met her, she kind of made that association and was a very good friend of mine and was nice to me. And so she is my first daughter's godmother. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Godmother" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.73% of the time. "Godmother" is used about 133 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) | 91.73% | 122 | 29,069 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.51% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.01% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.75% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 133 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "godmother": fairy godmother. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "godmother"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ndrikull. (various references) | |
Arabic | ام بالعماد, العرابة, أب أو أم بالمعمودية (godfather). (various references) | |
Aymara | ichumama. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кръстница (cummer, godparent, gossip). (various references) | |
Chinese | 教母 . (various references) | |
Czech | kmotra. (various references) | |
Farsi | مادرتعمیدی , مادرخوانده روحانی , نام گذاربچه . (various references) | |
Finnish | sylikummi, kummi (godfather, sponsor). (various references) | |
French | marraine (gossip). (various references) | |
German | patin (godparent, sponsor). (various references) | |
Greek | νονά (long-nose skate, long-nosed skate). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אם ס "קית, ס "קית. (various references) | |
Hungarian | keresztanya (sponsor). (various references) | |
Italian | madrina (sponsor), comare. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 代母 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いぼ. (various references) | |
Korean | 대모. (various references) | |
Manx | moir vashtee (godparent), mimmey (foster-mother, godparent, guardian, sponsor). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | odmothergay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | madrinha (maid of honor, maid of honour, sponsor). (various references) | |
Romanian | naşã (godparent, sponsor), nãşi. (various references) | |
Russian | крестная мать (cummer, godparent). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kumin, kuma. (various references) | |
Spanish | madrina, madre de dios. (various references) | |
Swedish | fadder (godfather, godparent, sponsor). (various references) | |
Thai | แม่อุปถัม ์. (various references) | |
Turkish | vaftiz anası (sponsor). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хрещена мати (god-parent), бути хрещеною матір'ю. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mẹ đỡ đầu (godparent). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "godmother": godmothers. (additional references) | |
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"Godmother" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: goldsmithery. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "godmother" (pronounced gÄ"dmu'ther) |
| 5 | -d m u' th er | grandmother. |
| 4 | -m u' th er | stepmother. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-h-m-o-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: groomed, motored. | |
-3 letters: dehort, hooted, hooter, hotdog, hotrod, method, moored, mooted, mooter, mother, roomed, rooted. | |
-4 letters: doeth, doter, ergot, gemot, godet, gored, groom, homed, homer, horde, metro, mooed, motor, oohed, ortho, other, rodeo, romeo, therm, thoro, throe, trode. | |
-5 letters: demo, derm, doer, doge, dome, doom, door, dore, dorm, dote, doth, dreg, ergo, germ, goer. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-h-m-o-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: godmothers. | |
+5 letters: demythologizer, remythologized. | |
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