godfather
god fo dher
- 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
- You could call George Habash, a Palestinian leader who died in Amman on Saturday at the age of 82, the godfather of Middle East terrorism.
- Today, 15 years later, Linux powers everything from supercomputers to mobile phones around the world, and Torvalds has achieved fame as the godfather of the open-source movement .