GRANDMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grandma mean? 

• GRANDMA (noun)
  The noun GRANDMA has 1 sense:

1. the mother of your father or mother

  Familiarity information: GRANDMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRANDMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The mother of your father or mother

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

gran; grandma; grandmother; grannie; granny; nan; nanna

Hypernyms ("grandma" is a kind of...):

grandparent (a parent of your father or mother)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grandma"):

nan (your grandmother)

 Context examples 

As one of the children is older than yourself, you needn't talk so like a grandma.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

How they ever grew up alive in that whirlpool of boys was a mystery to their grandma and aunts, but they flourished like dandelions in spring, and their rough nurses loved and served them well.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)