as in grandfather
the mother of your father or mother
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Recent Examples of grandmother
Angela and her grandmother knew his love for music and encouraged him to play at a service.
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Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 20 Mar. 2025
More than just flavors, this dish embodies the resilience my grandmother taught me.
—Chelsea Davis, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Voisin says her grandmother was a native French speaker.
—Aubri Juhasz, NPR, 19 Mar. 2025
There’s no question the new leader of East Aurora District 131 has roots that run deep, going back a couple generations to when his grandmother was a student at Bardwell and later became president of the Krug PTO and a paraprofessional throughout the district’s elementary schools.
—Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
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Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 20 Mar. 2025
More than just flavors, this dish embodies the resilience my grandmother taught me.
—Chelsea Davis, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Voisin says her grandmother was a native French speaker.
—Aubri Juhasz, NPR, 19 Mar. 2025
There’s no question the new leader of East Aurora District 131 has roots that run deep, going back a couple generations to when his grandmother was a student at Bardwell and later became president of the Krug PTO and a paraprofessional throughout the district’s elementary schools.
—Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandmother
Noun
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Eala’s grandfather, a tennis buff, introduced all his grandchildren to the sport at his local club.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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The complainants said the abusive behavior began as soon as Farley, a 26-year veteran of the department whose father and grandfather were deputy chiefs, was appointed the top job.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
26 Mar. 2025
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For decades, Posey has influenced how New Yorkers dress, but thanks to her scene-stealing turn as a Lorazepam-sipping matriarch on The White Lotus, she’s found herself squarely in the fashion zeitgeist once again.—
Freya Drohan,
Vogue,
21 Mar. 2025
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In 2024, Kelly Bishop, who played the show’s matriarch Emily Gilmore, released her memoir The Third Gilmore Girl, which details her time on the series.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
17 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 4 Apr. 2025.
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