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Godparent

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who, at a child's naming ceremony or baptism, agrees to help raise the child, originally and especially in regard to their religious development.
  2. 2
    a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism wordnet
  3. 3
    A child's designated guardian in the case that the child's parents die.

Etymology

From god- + parent, modelled after godfather, godmother, godsib, etc.

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