goddaughter
- n a female godchild
- When Carol Avery talks about her goddaughter's experience learning to read, she too begins to cry.
- ROSETTA LENOIRE, 90, affable grandma on the American TV sitcom Family Matters and goddaughter of dancing legend Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, with whom she started in showbiz; in .
- Their daughter, Patricia, 19, who stood crying next to her mother along the funeral route, was Kennedy's goddaughter.