fairy godmother

1. 1.

   a generous benefactor

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2. 2.

   a female character in some fairy stories who has magical powers and can bring unexpected good fortune to the hero or heroine

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Questions about fairy godmother

What does fairy godmother mean?

fairy godmother means "a generous benefactor". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is fairy godmother a common word?

fairy godmother is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.