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Definitions for GRANDMOTHER
ˈgrænˌmʌð ər, ˈgrænd-, ˈgræm-grand·moth·er

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. grandma, grandmother, granny, grannie, gran, nan, nannanoun

    the mother of your father or mother

Wiktionary

  1. grandmothernoun

    A mother of someone's parent.

  2. grandmothernoun

    A female ancestor or progenitor.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Grandmothernoun

    The father’s or mother’s mother.

    Etymology: grand and mother.

    Thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice. 1 Tim. i. 5.

ChatGPT

  1. grandmother

    A grandmother is a female parent of one's mother or father, making her a second-degree direct ancestor. She is often a figure of love, care and familial bonds, taking part in raising and nurturing her grandchildren in many cultures.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Grandmothernoun

    the mother of one's father or mother

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British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'GRANDMOTHER' in Nouns Frequency: #2281

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of GRANDMOTHER in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of GRANDMOTHER in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of GRANDMOTHER in a Sentence

  1. George Santos:

    My grandfather was born in Kyivand left in the late 20s and migrated to Belgium where he met my grandmother and then started a family, we don’t carry the Ukrainian last name, for a lot of people who are descendants of World War II refuges or survivors of the Holocaust, a lot of names or paperwork were changed in the name of survival.

  2. The Rev. Gilbert Walker:

    I became interested in Cuba hearing the stories of my great-grandparents and my grandmother. She lived until she was about 11 or 12 on a small sugar plantation in Chaparra, in eastern Cuba.

  3. Alex Azar:

    I know what I’m doing. I know this space, i know how cost works in the system. What if I were a grandmother and I’m trusting the system will take care of me? What if I’m a 20-something and I have a high deductible plan? I was able to fight for that information. I knew to fight for that information ... they wouldn’t. I think it’s a right to know up front what we are going to pay for a procedure.

  4. Joyce Beatty:

    I was there because I wanted the young protesters to know that in solidarity, that I stand with them, joyce Beatty know, I'm a grandmother, I'm an elected official, but I'm a black woman first and I felt the pain.

  5. Abderrahman Hassi:

    Education and knowledge are the only asset that you can not loose and no one can take it away from you (From the wisdom of my late grandmother Zahra Belfkih)

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