as in grandfather
the mother of your father or mother
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Recent Examples of grandmother
The name honors both of her grandmothers: Carl Philip's mother, Queen Silvia, and Sofia's mother, Marie.
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Stephanie Petit, People.com, 10 Feb. 2025
Central Valley is home to famed labor organizers and civil rights leaders like her grandmother Dolores Huerta, along with César Chávez.
—Melissa Adan, ABC News, 8 Feb. 2025
Chances are your grandmother kept a jar of bacon grease beside the stove, ever on hand to take her dishes from good to great.
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 1 Feb. 2025
Jurado-Lugo went into hiding and was living with his grandmother in Chihuahua, Mexico, for some time.
—Graeme Taskerud, The Denver Post, 31 Jan. 2025
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Stephanie Petit, People.com, 10 Feb. 2025
Central Valley is home to famed labor organizers and civil rights leaders like her grandmother Dolores Huerta, along with César Chávez.
—Melissa Adan, ABC News, 8 Feb. 2025
Chances are your grandmother kept a jar of bacon grease beside the stove, ever on hand to take her dishes from good to great.
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 1 Feb. 2025
Jurado-Lugo went into hiding and was living with his grandmother in Chihuahua, Mexico, for some time.
—Graeme Taskerud, The Denver Post, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandmother
Noun
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The local carry-out spot, now run by third-generation owner Jermaine Blackmon, was originally opened in 1952 by his grandfather.—
Chyna Blackmon,
Charlotte Observer,
18 Feb. 2025
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Over breakfast on the day after the announcement was made, Venetia’s grandfather was reading the account of the new planet aloud from the paper and the young girl straightaway recommended the name Pluto, the ruler of the underworld.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
18 Feb. 2025
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Alma Elizabeth Meagher, the matriarch of her family who led a Christmas gift and meal donation program, died of heart failure Jan. 28 at Brightview Senior Living in Towson.—
Jacques Kelly,
Baltimore Sun,
12 Feb. 2025
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Central to Diotima’s Fall/Winter 2025 is the maternal figure, the matriarch.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
11 Feb. 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 22 Feb. 2025.
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