喜樂美語
  1. 1

    A godparent is someone who promises, at a baptism, to help a child and to teach Christian values. We use this word when we do not need to say man or woman — it covers godfather and together. The job is care and faith, not the law. Though actually, students sometimes think a godparent will take the child if the parents die. That can happen if a family also it in a will, but godparent by itself does not give legal power. The word is a later, neater coinage, modelled on the older pair godfather and .

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    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成god- + parent, built on the older pair godfather and godmother, when people wanted one word for either.

同家族的字

  • godfatherthe older male word this was modelled on
  • godmotherthe older female word this was modelled on
  • parentthe second piece — a helper in faith, not a replacement parent

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

godparentnoun

  • 1

    A person who, at a child's naming ceremony or baptism, agrees to help raise the child, originally and especially in regard to their religious development.

  • 2

    A child's designated guardian in the case that the child's parents die.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。