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godfamily

godfamily noun: a group of people who are closely related to one another by godparent/godchild ties (including godsiblings, godaunts, etc).

Noun

godfamily (countable and uncountable, plural godfamilies)

  1. A group of people who are closely related to one another by godparent/godchild ties (including godsiblings, godaunts, etc).
    • Apart from family, there was godfamily, something which was taken seriously […]1996, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History Christopher Given-Wilson, An Illustrated History of Late Medieval England, Manchester University Press, page 119
    • First find a godparent, and learn what are the proper offerings for each Orisha, […] In essence one's godfamily functions as a support structure.2015, Michael York, Pagan Ethics: Paganism as a World Religion, Springer, →ISBN, page 372

Forms of godfamily

pluralgodfamilies

Origin of godfamily

From god- + family.

Questions about godfamily

What does godfamily mean?
Godfamily means a group of people who are closely related to one another by godparent/godchild ties (including godsiblings, godaunts, etc).
What part of speech is godfamily?
Godfamily is a noun.
What is the plural of godfamily?
The plural of godfamily is godfamilies.

Words near godfamily in the dictionary

  1. godetias
  2. godets
  3. Godette
  4. Godettes
  5. godfamilies
  6. godfamily
  7. godfather
  8. godfathered
  9. godfatherhood
  10. godfathering
  11. godfatherism

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