n.

1. A man who sponsors a person at baptism.
2. One that has a relationship to another person or to something that is the equivalent of being a baptismal sponsor: the godfather of a new generation of nuclear physicists.
3. Slang. The leader of an organized crime family.

tr.v., -thered, -ther·ing, -thers.

To serve as or as if a godfather to.

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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: any man who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism

Meaning #2: someone having a relation analogous to that of a male sponsor to his godchild

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - gudfar
v. tr. - være gudfar

Nederlands (Dutch)
peetvader

Français (French)
n. - parrain
v. tr. - parrainer

Deutsch (German)
n. - Pate, Patenonkel
v. - Pate stehen bei, (übertr.) verantwortlich sein für

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ανάδοχος, νονός

Italiano (Italian)
padrino

Português (Portuguese)
n. - padrinho (m)

Русский (Russian)
крестный отец

Español (Spanish)
n. - padrino, líder de la mafia, persona que inicia un movimiento, capomafioso
v. tr. - apadrinar, proteger

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - gudfar, gudfader (maffiaboss)

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
教父, 当教父

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 教父
v. tr. - 當教父

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 대부 (세례시 아이의 이름을 지어 주는 대부)
v. tr. - 대부로서 행동하다, ~의 대부가 되다, 후원하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 名付け親, 教父, 名親
v. - 教父になる

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) عراب‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮סנדק‬
v. tr. - ‮שימש כסנדק, תמך ב-‬

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godfather	godfather collection
the godfather	godfather customs