as in grandfather
the mother of your father or mother
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Recent Examples of grandmother
Her family had lived in the Butler Place public housing complex just east of downtown, but her parents wanted to own a home, just like her grandmother did.
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Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Apr. 2025
Annie is a practitioner of traditional medicines, a calling passed down from her grandmother.
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 22 Apr. 2025
Indian women are taught by their mothers and grandmothers to massage oils into their hair from a young age.
—Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2025
And of course, there's plenty of mentions of her mother and grandmother.
—Alexandra Schonfeld, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
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Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Apr. 2025
Annie is a practitioner of traditional medicines, a calling passed down from her grandmother.
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 22 Apr. 2025
Indian women are taught by their mothers and grandmothers to massage oils into their hair from a young age.
—Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2025
And of course, there's plenty of mentions of her mother and grandmother.
—Alexandra Schonfeld, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandmother
Noun
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Given his grandfather’s negative views on homosexuality, Min has not yet discussed being gay with his grandmother.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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Steve Polidori joined his grandfather at the family’s meat-processing facility while studying at Colorado State University in the early ’90s and stayed on after graduation.—
Miguel Otárola,
Denver Post,
15 Apr. 2025
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The dolls, which belong to a tribe called The Monsters, are the latest in a long line of iconic collectible characters from Asia, including Hello Kitty — now a 50-year-old matriarch — Sonny Angel and Gudetama.—
Alisha Haridasani Gupta,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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It’s named for Cindy Pritzker, the late matriarch of the Pritzker family, and a portrait of her by Andy Warhol hangs in the restaurant.—
Everett Potter,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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The intersection of these two facts does convince me that William's genealogical ancestress, Eliza Kewark, did have South Asian ancestry (not totally surprising even in notionally ethnically distinct groups like Armenians or Parsis who have been long resident in India).—
Razib Khan,
Discover Magazine,
14 June 2013
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Instead of being a reticulated mesh the genealogy of mtDNA is a clean and inverted elegant tree leading back to a common ancestress.—
Razib Khan,
Discover Magazine,
17 Nov. 2010
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“Grandmother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandmother. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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