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Definition: Godson |
GodsonNoun1. A male godchild. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "godson" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Note: Godson \God"son`\, noun. [from Anglo-Saxon expression godsunu.]. (references) |
Crosswords: Godson |
| Specialty definitions using "godson": God-child ♦ TEDDY MY GODSON. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Godson (1971) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Godson" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.87% of the time. "Godson" is used about 39 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) | 94.87% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.13% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 39 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "godson" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Godson | Last name | 130 | 57,017 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
godson | 30 |
godson nas | 6 |
godson movie | 4 |
godson lyrics nas | 4 |
godson poem | 3 |
godson gift | 2 |
godson suzi | 2 |
godson lyrics | 2 |
godson vern | 2 |
china godson | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "godson"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | famull (godchild). (various references) | |
Arabic | إبن بالمعمودية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кръщелник (godchild). (various references) | |
Chinese | 教子 (godchild). (various references) | |
Czech | kmotřenec (godchild). (various references) | |
Farsi | پسرتعمیدی , مردتعمیدی . (various references) | |
Finnish | kummipoika. (various references) | |
French | filleul (godchild). (various references) | |
German | Patenkind (godchild). (various references) | |
Greek | βαφτιστικός. (various references) | |
Hebrew | בן סנדקות. (various references) | |
Hungarian | keresztfiú. (various references) | |
Italian | figlioccio (godchild). (various references) | |
Korean | 대자. (various references) | |
Manx | mac bashtee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | odsongay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | afilhado (godchild). (various references) | |
Romanian | fin (beautiful, choice, delicate, delicately, discriminating, excellent, fine, fine-drawn, finely, fine-spun, godchild, gossamer, graceful, keen, nice, penetrating, quick, refined, select, sharp, shrewd, slender, soft, spidery, subtile, subtly, tenuous). (various references) | |
Russian | крестник (godchild). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kumče (godchild, goddaughter). (various references) | |
Spanish | ahijado (godchild). (various references) | |
Swedish | gudson. (various references) | |
Turkish | vaftiz oğlu. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хрещеник (god-child). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | con trai đỡ đầu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | filiolus. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | godsunu. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "godson": godsons. (additional references) | |
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"Godson" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: foyson, Gieson, Godon, godown, godron, godsun, Goldeson, Goldson, gossom, gosson, hodgsoni. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-n-o-o-s" | |
-1 letter: dongs, goods, goons, snood. | |
-2 letters: dogs, dong, dons, gods, good, goon, goos, nods, nogs, snog, song, soon. | |
-3 letters: dog, don, dos, god, goo, gos, nod, nog, noo, nos, ods, ons, sod, son. | |
-4 letters: do, go, no, od, on, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-n-o-o-s" | |
+1 letter: drongos, godowns, godsons, noodges. | |
+2 letters: doggones, dongolas, dragoons, gadroons, godroons, gondolas, goodness, snooding, stegodon. | |
+3 letters: bloodings, doggonest, golcondas, goldstone, goosander, grandioso, kinghoods, kingwoods, ondograms, prognosed, rigadoons, skidooing, stegodons. | |
+4 letters: disrooting, dodecagons, doomsaying, endogamous, endogenous, goldenrods, goldstones, gondoliers, goodnesses, goosanders, greenwoods, groundhogs, groundouts, iguanodons, mongoloids, overdosing, skiddooing, sodomizing, springwood, stronghold, wrongdoers. | |
+5 letters: androgynous, boondoggles, decomposing, derogations, disbosoming, discoloring, dishonoring, doggonedest, doomsayings, forebodings, foregrounds, gadroonings, godforsaken, goosenecked, groundwoods, groundworks, homogenised, hydrogenous, knighthoods, orangewoods, outscolding, pycnogonids, springwoods, strongholds, wordmongers, wrongdoings. | |
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