Godmother vs. Mother — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Godmother and Mother
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Godmother
A woman who sponsors a person at baptism.
Mother
A mother is the female parent of a child. Mothers are women who inhabit or perform the role of bearing some relation to their children, who may or may not be their biological offspring.
Godmother
One that has a relationship to another person or to something that is the equivalent of being a baptismal sponsor
The godmother to a new generation of physicians.
Mother
A woman who gives birth to a child.
Godmother
To serve as or as if a godmother to.
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Mother
A woman whose egg unites with a sperm, producing an embryo.
Godmother
A woman present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner; a female godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child.
Mother
A woman who adopts a child.
Godmother
(transitive) To act as godmother to.
Mother
A woman who raises a child.
Godmother
A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See Godfather
Mother
A female parent of an animal.
Godmother
Any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism
Mother
A female ancestor.
Mother
A woman who holds a position of authority or responsibility similar to that of a mother
A den mother.
Mother
A mother superior.
Mother
Used as a form of address for such a woman.
Mother
A woman who creates, originates, or founds something
"the discovery of radium, which made Marie Curie mother to the Atomic Age" (Alden Whitman).
Mother
A creative source; an origin
Philosophy is the mother of the sciences.
Mother
Used as a title for a woman respected for her wisdom and age.
Mother
Maternal love and tenderness
Brought out the mother in her.
Mother
The biggest or most significant example of its kind
The mother of all battles.
Mother
Vulgar Slang Something considered extraordinary, as in disagreeableness, size, or intensity.
Mother
A stringy slime composed of yeast cells and bacteria that forms on the surface of fermenting liquids and is added to wine or cider to start the production of vinegar.
Mother
Relating to or being a mother.
Mother
Characteristic of a mother
Mother love.
Mother
Being the source or origin
The mother church.
Mother
Derived from or as if from one's mother; native
One's mother language.
Mother
To give birth to
Mothered three children.
Mother
To be the source of; create or produce
"Necessity mothered the invention of printing" (Irving Wallace).
Mother
To act as mother to, as in nourishing and protecting.
Mother
To act or serve as a mother.
Mother
A female parent, sometimes especially a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
I am visiting my mother today.
The lioness was a mother of four cubs.
Mother
A female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children.
My sister-in-law has just become a mother for the first time.
He had something of his mother in him.
Mother
A pregnant female, possibly as a shortened form of mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.
Nutrients and oxygen obtained by the mother are conveyed to the fetus.
Mother
A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.
Mother
(figuratively) A female ancestor.
Mother
(figuratively) A source or origin.
The Mediterranean was mother to many cultures and languages.
Mother
Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. mother of all.}}
Mother
A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.
Mother Smith, meet my cousin, Doug Jones.
Mother
(dated) A term of address for one's wife.
Mother
(figuratively) Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
Mother
(figuratively) Any person or entity which performs mothering.
Mother
Dregs, lees; a stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance consisting of acetobacters which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids such as wine, or cider, and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air.
Pieces of mother, adding mother to vinegar
Mother
(railroading) A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.
Mother
The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
Mother
The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
Mother
(obsolete) Hysterical passion; hysteria; the uterus.
Mother
A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
Mother
Motherfucker.
Mother
A striking example.
Mother
Alternative form of moth-er
Mother
To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. father]].
Mother
(transitive) To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
Mother
(transitive) To cause to contain that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar.
Mothered oil, mothered vinegar, mothered wine
Mother
To develop mother.
Mother
A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.
Mother
That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix.
Alas! poor country! . . . it can notBe called our mother, but our grave.
I behold . . . the solitary majesty of Crete, mother of a religion, it is said, that lived two thousand years.
Mother
An old woman or matron.
Mother
The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc.
Mother
Hysterical passion; hysteria.
Mother
A film or membrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation.
Mother
Same as motherfucker.
Mother
A person or thing with some exceptional quality, as great size or power; as, a grizzly stuck his nose in my tent and I grabbed my pistol and shot the mother.
Mother
Received by birth or from ancestors; native, natural; as, mother language; also acting the part, or having the place of a mother; producing others; originating.
It is the mother falsehood from which all idolatry is derived.
Mother
To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to.
The queen, to have put lady Elizabeth besides the crown, would have mothered another body's child.
Mother
To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar.
Mother
A woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother);
The mother of three children
Mother
A stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar
Mother
A term of address for an elderly woman
Mother
A condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation;
Necessity is the mother of invention
Mother
Care for like a mother;
She fusses over her husband
Mother
Make children;
Abraham begot Isaac
Men often father children but don't recognize them
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