as in grandfather
the mother of your father or mother
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Recent Examples of grandmother
On March 20, 63-year-old Edward James was executed for killing an 8-year-old girl and her grandmother in 1993.
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Curt Anderson, Sun Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2025
Growing up, Tarrant attended games with grandmother and her friends.
—Marcus D. Smith, Sacbee.com, 1 Apr. 2025
Although it was first made in 1957, Boursin cheese is an ingredient that your grandmother probably wouldn't recognize.
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2025
The child is not a resident of the neighborhood and was visiting his grandmother at the time of the incident.
—Samira Asma-Sadeque, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025
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Curt Anderson, Sun Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2025
Growing up, Tarrant attended games with grandmother and her friends.
—Marcus D. Smith, Sacbee.com, 1 Apr. 2025
Although it was first made in 1957, Boursin cheese is an ingredient that your grandmother probably wouldn't recognize.
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2025
The child is not a resident of the neighborhood and was visiting his grandmother at the time of the incident.
—Samira Asma-Sadeque, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandmother
Noun
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Robyn, 11, and Chuck, 8, had just been picked up early from Camp Timber Lake by their uncle Jim Peel and grandfather Bryan McArthur.—
Tony Holt,
Arkansas Online,
7 Apr. 2025
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Founded by her grandfather 75 years ago, Klem's sells a wide range of products including hardware, pet food and clothes.—
Alina Selyukh,
NPR,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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One of those sisters is the now-dead matriarch who deeded her house to Sophie.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Apr. 2025
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Shannon is desperately searching for love in the shadow of her gangster father, Dylan (Riley), devoted mum Cat (Fraser), older brother Luke (Gribben) and the indomitable family matriarch, grandma Ollie (Duncan).—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
28 Mar. 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 16 Apr. 2025.
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