Usually means: Protector, advisor, leader in Mafia.
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  1. godfather: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. godfather: Collins English Dictionary
  3. godfather: Vocabulary.com
  4. Godfather, godfather, the-godfather: Wordnik
  5. godfather: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. godfather: Wiktionary
  7. godfather: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. godfather: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. godfather: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Godfather, godfather, the godfather: Dictionary.com
  11. godfather: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Godfather (Kannada film), Godfather (Wiley album), Godfather (album), Godfather (cocktail), Godfather (disambiguation), Godfather (soundtrack), Godfather (wrestler), Godfather, THE GODFATHER, The Godfather (book series), The Godfather (disambiguation), The Godfather (fairy tale), The Godfather (film), The Godfather (film series), The Godfather (franchise), The Godfather (movie), The Godfather (novel), The Godfather (soundtrack), The Godfather (video game), The Godfather (wrestler), The Godfather, The godfather: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Godfather: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. godfather: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. godfather: Rhymezone
  16. godfather: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. godfather: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. Godfather: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. godfather: FreeDictionary.org
  20. godfather: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. godfather: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. godfather: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. godfather: Merriam-Webster
  24. godfather: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  25. godfather: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Godfather (disambiguation), Godfather (film), The Godfather (disambiguation), godfather: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. godfather: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. godfather: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (Christianity) 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.
▸ noun:  (figurative) Someone who plays a key role in fostering the development of something.
▸ noun:  (crime) A mafia leader.
▸ noun:  A small post which is used in repairing a fence. For instance attached to and supporting an existing broken fence post.
▸ verb:  (transitive, often figuratively) To act as godfather or guardian to.

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godmother, godparent, godson, godfatherhood, godfathership, godchild, gossip, godpapa, co-father, guideparent, more...

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don, godparent, sponsor, patron, benefactor, more...

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godfather offer, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Godfather Part III, Godfather of Harlem, more...

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fairy, dear, spiritual, political, intellectual, literary, own, old, absent, second, royal

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Similar:
godmother, godparent, godson, godfatherhood, godfathership, godchild, gossip, godpapa, co-father, guideparent, more...

Types:
don, godparent, sponsor, patron, benefactor, more...

Phrases:
godfather offer, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Godfather Part III, Godfather of Harlem, The Godfather Saga, The Godfather Returns, Love Theme from The Godfather, Godfather Death, more...

Adjectives:
fairy, dear, spiritual, political, intellectual, literary, own, old, absent, second, royal

Colors:
    black,     charcoal,     midnight blue,     burgundy,     olive green, more...



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