Other forms: godparents
A godparent is an adult who promises to guide a child's upbringing. Choose a godparent, her godparents, godparents at the christening.
The promise made at a christening is religious in origin, and a godparent is supposed to answer for the child's faith. In practice the role is now mostly a mark of friendship and carries no legal standing whatever.
1noungodparentAn adult who promises to guide a child's upbringing.
“She asked her best friend to be a godparent to her new baby.”
godparent is a person.
God plus parent, on the pattern of the older godfather and godmother.
Proto-Indo-European
*ǵʰew-
English, today
godparent
From god- + parent. From god + parent, modelled after godfather, godmother, godsib, etc.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA