Skip to main content

godmother

/god-muhth-er/US // ˈgɒdˌmʌð ər //UK // (ˈɡɒdˌmʌðə) //

教母,干妈,抚养费,抚养费用

Related Words

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a woman who serves as sponsor for a child at baptism.
    • : any female sponsor or guardian.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to act as godmother to; sponsor.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • His mother died when he was 8 years old, and his godmother, who helped raise him, also has died.

  • The Queen became godmother to Duleep Singh’s children, including Sophia Duleep Singh, who would later become a suffragette.

  • I have been honored and privileged to be designated as godmother of four people — all children of various close friends.

  • Virtual Kim swans in every so often to dish out advice like a buxom fairy godmother.

  • The boy had been back at the playground with his godmother early Sunday evening when he decided he wanted an ice.

  • The monster was still beyond imagining when Prince, known as P.J., told his godmother that he wanted an Italian ice.

  • Singled out for opprobrium was the planned exhibit on Margaret Sanger, birth-control crusader and godmother of Planned Parenthood.

  • A former legislative director of Ohio Right to Life, Porter is in many ways the godmother of the heartbeat movement.

  • Belle was to be godmother and had to be got down; which was impossible, as the jester Euclid says.

  • Her godmother had twice written to her, and Babette was now hoping to see her and her daughters in Interlaken.

  • Half-way up stood the74 boarding-house where the godmother was living.

  • Two thousand pounds a year left you by your godmother; the very same you told us you know.

  • I was up at the castle a great deal, because the Baroness Maximiliana of Wallersttten was my godmother.