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godard
  • n  French film maker influenced by surrealism; early work explored the documentary use of film; noted for innovative techniques (born in 1930)
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godchild
  • n  an infant who is sponsored by an adult (the godparent) at baptism
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goddard
  • n  United States physicist who developed the first successful liquid-fueled rocket (1882-1945)
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godel
  • n  United States mathematician (born in Austria) who is remembered principally for demonstrating the limitations of axiomatic systems (1906-1978)
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godfather
  • n  any man who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism
  • n  someone having a relation analogous to that of a male sponsor to his godchild
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godiva
  • n  according to legend she rode naked through Coventry in order to persuade her husband not to tax the townspeople so heavily; the only person to look at her as she rode by was a man named Tom and Peeping Tom has become a synonym for voyeur (circa 1040-1080)
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godlessness
  • n  the doctrine or belief that there is no God
  • n  impiety by virtue of not being a godly person
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godmother
  • n  any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism
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