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Definition of Grandmother

1. Noun. The mother of your father or mother.

Definition of Grandmother

1. n. The mother of one's father or mother.

Definition of Grandmother

1. Noun. A mother of someone’s parent. ¹

2. Noun. A female ancestor or progenitor. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Grandmother

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grandmother

Literary usage of Grandmother

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"The mother of the child was dead, and the respondent was the child's grandmother. In rendering judgment, the court recited certain facts in consideration of ..."

2. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855)
"She had been the source of all his wealth; she had peopled his plantation wMh slaves; she had become a great-grandmother in his service. ..."

3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1909)
"grandmother was sitting by the fire. Her knitting was in her lap; she was gazing into the coals. ... By this time Molly and grandmother were shaking hands. ..."

4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"All this must be; for consider how few years since it was your grandmother who was the belle, by whose side the handsome young men longed to sit and pass ..."

5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1904)
"His grandmother told him at that interview she would give him a check for the mortgage in a few days, and he then went home. Subsequently, and on the 26th ..."

6. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"And so the grandmother got her soothed and hushed, and at last she lay still ... You will not let him come into the room, good grandmother, should he ever ..."

7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: And of ...by Great Britain Court of Chancery, William Peere Williams, Samuel Compton Cox, Great Britain Court of King's Bench by Great Britain Court of Chancery, William Peere Williams, Samuel Compton Cox, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1787)
"Lord Chan- A grandmother put ioo/. into the exchequer upon the (a) cellar aft which gives 14/. percent, annuities for lives, and PARKER. her grandchild ..."

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