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Her aunt is also her godmother.
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As Enninful asks the Academy, Golden Globe and SAG-award winner to tell him more about her longtime friend, Roberts says Paige is her daughter Hazel's godmother.
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Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Cruise lines select godmothers – and sometimes godfathers – to sponsor new ships as part of a maritime tradition intended to bring luck and safe passage to the vessel and its passengers.
—Nathan Diller, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
Diana counted Monckton, now a baroness, among her closest friends and was godmother to one of her daughters.
—Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025
Punk godmother Patti Smith‘s landmark 1975 debut album, Horses, is getting the golden jubilee treatment.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 22 Aug. 2025
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Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Cruise lines select godmothers – and sometimes godfathers – to sponsor new ships as part of a maritime tradition intended to bring luck and safe passage to the vessel and its passengers.
—Nathan Diller, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
Diana counted Monckton, now a baroness, among her closest friends and was godmother to one of her daughters.
—Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025
Punk godmother Patti Smith‘s landmark 1975 debut album, Horses, is getting the golden jubilee treatment.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 22 Aug. 2025
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“Godmother.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/godmother. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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godmother
noun
god·moth·er
ˈgäd-ˌmət͟h-ər 
also ˈgȯd-
: a female sponsor at baptism
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