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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: godfather, godmother
A child's designated guardian in the case that the child's parents die.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: patron, sponsor, supporter
Narrower terms: godfather, godmother
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵhew- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *ǵhutós? Proto-Germanic *gudą Proto-West Germanic *god Old English god Middle English god English god English god- English parent English godparent From god- + parent, modelled after godfather, godmother, godsib, etc.
Across languages
Translations
56 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Asturian:
padrín
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Asturian:
madrina
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Chinese Mandarin:
乾爹 /干爹
(gāndiē)
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Chinese Mandarin:
教父
(jiàofù)
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Chinese Mandarin:
乾娘 /干娘
(gānniáng)
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Chinese Mandarin:
教母
(jiàomǔ)
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Danish:
fadder
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Dutch:
peetvader
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Dutch:
peetmoeder
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Esperanto:
baptogepatro
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Estonian:
ristivanem
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Estonian:
ristiisa
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Estonian:
ristiema
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Estonian:
vader
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Finnish:
kummi
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Finnish:
kummisetä
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Finnish:
kummitäti
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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French:
parrain
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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French:
marraine
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Galician:
padriño
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Georgian:
ნათლია
(natlia)
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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German:
Pate
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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German:
Patin
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Greek:
νονός
(godfather)
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Greek:
νονά
(godmother)
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Hawaiian:
makua papakema
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Hungarian:
keresztszülő
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Ido:
baptogenitoro
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Indonesian:
wali baptis
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Ingrian:
kooma
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Irish:
cara as Críost
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Japanese:
教父母
(kyōfubo)
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Japanese:
名付け親
(nazukeoya)
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Japanese:
代父母
(daifubo)
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Luxembourgish:
Pätter
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Macedonian:
кум
(kum)
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Norwegian Bokmål:
fadder
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Norwegian Bokmål:
dåpsvitne
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
fadder
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
dåpsvitne
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Old English:
godsibb
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Polish:
chrzestny
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Polish:
chrzestna
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Portuguese:
padrinho
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Portuguese:
madrinha
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Romanian:
naș
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Romanian:
nașă
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Russian:
крёстный оте́ц
(krjóstnyj otéc)
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Russian:
крёстная мать
(krjóstnaja matʹ)
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Swedish:
fadder
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Ukrainian:
хрещений батько
(xreščenyj batʹko)
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Ukrainian:
хрещена
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Volapük:
spönan
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Volapük:
hispönan
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Volapük:
jispönan
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
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Volapük:
spönanef
— person who stood for a child during a naming ceremony or baptism
