grandmother
- noun
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A woman who is the mother of your mother or your father.
My grandmother taught me to knit when I was six.
Both of my grandmothers grew up in the same small village.
She calls her grandmother every Sunday evening after dinner.
He inherited the old clock from his grandmother last year.
Common collocations: maternal grandmother · paternal grandmother · my grandmother's house · become a grandmother · great-grandmother
Part of: Family, Relationships, Life events
Forms
- plural
- grandmothers