Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
godson [god-suhn] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a male godchild.
Origin of godson before 900; Middle English; Old English godsunu. See God, son Examples from the Web for godson Contemporary Examples of godson
As for my godson, I completely adored him—just like every other white lady who ever saw him.
The Cost: What Stop and Frisk Does to a Young Man’s Soul
Rilla Askew
May 21, 2014
When my godson Trey was a toddler growing up in Brooklyn, every white woman who saw him fell in love with him.
The Cost: What Stop and Frisk Does to a Young Man’s Soul
Rilla Askew
May 21, 2014
They included both William Davenant, a godson of Shakespeare and Sir John Suckling, the inventor of the card game cribbage.
Peter Stothard
July 6, 2011
My godson and I wrote a note of congratulations and slipped it under her door.
Kevin Sessums
February 23, 2009
Historical Examples of godson
I have thought, ever since, that he knew something about my birth, and of my being the prince’s godson.
James Fenimore Cooper
Your kind letter, with your kind remembrance of your godson, came safe.
Robert Burns
“Some day, perhaps,” said M. de Kercadiou vaguely, and swept his godson out.
Rafael Sabatini
I would I were Rothschild, or his son, or his godson, to beg your acceptance of them.
Charles James Lever
He told me that the young man is my godson, and he asked me to protect him.
The Memoires of Casanova, Complete
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
British Dictionary definitions for godson godson noun
- a male godchild
Word Origin and History for godson n.
“male child one sponsors at baptism,” c.1200, from God + son.