Grandmother vs Godmother - What's the difference?
grandmother | godmother |
A woman present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner; a female godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child.
To act as godmother to.
* 1909 , H. G. Wells, Tono-Bungay
As nouns the difference between grandmother and godmother
is that grandmother is a mother of someone's parent while godmother is a woman present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner; a female godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child.As a verb godmother is
to act as godmother to.grandmother
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(wikipedia grandmother)Synonyms
* (sense, mother of someone's parent) baba (loanword from Eastern Europe), gammy, gram, gramma, gran, grandma, grandmom, granny, eldmother/eldermother, mimi, nan (British slang), nanna, nanny, MamawAntonyms
* (with regard to gender) grandfather * (with regard to ancestry) granddaughter, grandson, grandchildHyponyms
* (l) * (l)Hypernyms
* (l)Derived terms
* (l)godmother
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(en noun)Synonyms
* co-mother * cummerVerb
(en verb)- The servants took to her – as they say – she godmothered three Susans during her rule, the coachman's, the gardener's and the Up Hill gamekeeper's.
