GRANDMOTHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grandmother mean? 

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

1. the mother of your father or mother

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRANDMOTHER (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 ("grandmother" is a kind of...):

grandparent (a parent of your father or mother)

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

nan (your grandmother)

 Context examples 

There lay her grandmother with her cap pulled far over her face, and looking very strange.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I was glad you made her play so much, for having no instrument at her grandmother's, it must have been a real indulgence.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He's to be named John Laurence, and the girl Margaret, after mother and grandmother.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The two grandmothers, with not less partiality, but more sincerity, were equally earnest in support of their own descendant.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The company were, the farmer and his wife, three children, and an old grandmother.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But, none the less, my turn that way is in my veins, and may have come with my grandmother, who was the sister of Vernet, the French artist.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was but three days; and being only a grandmother, and all happening two hundred miles off, I think there would have been no great harm, and it was suggested, I know; but Lord Ravenshaw, who I suppose is one of the most correct men in England, would not hear of it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The full moon of February 8 seems to find you wanting privacy and rest, and you may enjoy quality time with your family, including your children, parents, and perhaps special other relatives, like your grandmother or favorite uncle.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

What evenings, when the candles came, and I was expected to employ myself, but, not daring to read an entertaining book, pored over some hard-headed, harder-hearted treatise on arithmetic; when the tables of weights and measures set themselves to tunes, as Rule Britannia, or Away with Melancholy; when they wouldn't stand still to be learnt, but would go threading my grandmother's needle through my unfortunate head, in at one ear and out at the other!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Oh! grandmother,” she said, “what big ears you have!”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)