godparent
- n a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism
- Almost any celebrity is glad to stand godparent to a child, a street, a monument, a steamship, a cocktail or a baseball bat.
- Nearly everyone who was concerned with American abstract expressionismcritics, curators, the artists themselvesagreed on one thing: the movement, like its godparent .
- Mark Lester, godparent to Michael's children, says he is not concerned by Joe's statements.