A man present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner; a male godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child
To stand godfather To pay the reckoning, godfathers being generally chosen for the sake of the present they are expected to make the child at the christening or in their wills
This term, as opposed to witness to a baptism, was used by members of the Episcopal Church, chiefly about Dundee and Aberdeen There was no fined number of godparents
You can refer to a man who started or developed something such as a style of music as the godfather of that thing. the godfather of soul, James Brown. a violent US film, in which Marlon Brando appears as the leader of a powerful Mafia family, the Corleone family. Two other films, The Godfather Part II and The Godfather Part III, were made about the same family. The film is based on a book by Mario Puzo, and was made by Francis Ford Coppola (1972)