grandmother
the mother of one's father or mother.
a female ancestor.
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How to use grandmother in a sentence
My grandmother was a great cook and she only let me and my cousin Patricia help her.
So today, when I finally got to hold the flute in my hands, I felt like it was my grandmother again.
‘FLUTE EMERGENCY’: A musician forgot his $22,000 instrument on a Chicago train. A homeless man found it. | Andrea Salcedo | February 5, 2021 | Washington PostOne chief told me how his grandmother took his mother out to the wilderness for a year so that she would be safe.
How is Alaska leading the nation in vaccinating residents? With boats, ferries, planes and snowmobiles. | Cathy Free | February 4, 2021 | Washington PostThis was not the old-school, traditional funeral home that you think of with grandmother in the lilac suit, in polyester, with the silken sheets around her and all the flowers.
Eighteen-year-old Stella, known as Lala to all but her grandmother Wilma, is about to give birth to her first child.
‘How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House,’ by Cherie Jones, is a stunning debut | Hamilton Cain | February 2, 2021 | Washington Post
In 2011, he was arrested while visiting his grandmother in Iran, charged with espionage, and sentenced to death.
An American Marine in Iran’s Prisons Goes on Hunger Strike | IranWire | December 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThrough her haircare line, named for her grandmother, Jessie Branch, Titi Branch was revolutionary.
Goodbye To A Natural Hair Guru: Miss Jessie's Cofounder Titi Branch Dead At 45 | Danielle Belton | December 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhy is a straight grandmother the leading advocate for gays in Cameroon?
There is this trinity of female mourning: for your grandmother, your mother, and your unborn daughter.
Meghan Daum On Tackling The Unspeakable Parts Of Life | David Yaffe | December 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe seven-year-old Detroit girl was sleeping on the couch as her grandmother sat next to her watching television.
Worse Than Eric Garner: Cops Who Got Away With Killing Autistic Men and Little Girls | Emily Shire | December 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe year before they had spent part of the summer with their grandmother Pontellier in Iberville.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinAlila's grandmother prepared a quantity of betel before the new baby was born.
Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin | Mary Hazelton WadeThat was a new idea to Hettie; and it puzzled her little brain for a minute: then she laughed out, "Shall I be their grandmother?"
The Nursery, July 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 1 | VariousThe narrow individualism of the nineteenth century refused to recognize the social duty of supporting somebody else's grandmother.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockAt her bosom she wore a great brooch, containing intertwined locks of a grandfather and grandmother long since defunct.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. Locke
British Dictionary definitions for grandmother
/ (ˈɡrænˌmʌðə, ˈɡrænd-) /
the mother of one's father or mother
(often plural) a female ancestor
(often capital) a familiar term of address for an old woman
teach one's grandmother to suck eggs See egg 1 (def. 8)
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