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grandmother
[gran-muhth-er, grand-, gram-]
noun
the mother of one's father or mother.
a female ancestor.
grandmother
/ ˈɡrænd-, ˈɡrænˌmʌðə /
noun
the mother of one's father or mother
(often plural) a female ancestor
(often capital) a familiar term of address for an old woman
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Word History and Origins
Origin of grandmother1
Example Sentences
But she felt a creative pull: Her mother did musical theater in high school; her father and paternal grandmother painted.
The grandmother said it had taken years and tens of thousands of pounds to repair some of the damage done by the hydrogen peroxide treatment, which she got in 2015.
At 18, just as she was preparing to head to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, her grandmother and uncle passed away, just weeks apart from each other.
King Charles' grandmother, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, brought the dilapidated rural castle back to life after falling in love with the building in the early 1950s.
His father was two generations removed from slavery and remembered “running his fingers across the skin bumps on his grandmother’s back, physical reminders of her enslaver’s whip.”
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When To Use
A grandmother is the mother of a person’s parent.When a mother’s child has their own children, that mother becomes a grandmother.Less commonly, grandmother can be used in a general way to refer to a female ancestor, as in This would not be possible without the contributions of those who came before us, our many grandmothers.Should grandmother be capitalized?Grandmother should be capitalized when it’s used as a proper name, as in Please tell Grandmother that I miss her. But grandmother does not need to be capitalized when it’s simply used as a way to refer to her, as in Please tell my grandmother that I miss her. Example: It doesn’t matter what you call your grandmother, as long as you call her.
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