grandmother
the mother of your father or mother
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,898 of 86,757 words measured. It occurs 45,528 times across 426,181 published chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- the mother of your father or mother also: grandma, granny, grannie, gran, nan, nanna
grandmother in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Mrs. Winchester was a born aunt or grandmother.
Carolina Lee · Lilian Bell · Chapter 1
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And the old grandmother saw, and shook her head.
The Moving Finger · Mary Gaunt · Chapter 1
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His sister, little Ninette, nestled close to her stately grandmother.
Harper's Round Table, August 13, 1895 · Various · Chapter 1
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Perhaps he used them for flavor as grandmother put rose-geranium leaves in her crab-apple jelly.
A Mountain Boyhood · Joe Mills · Chapter 1
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Within an hour Ben-Abid heard that his grandmother had been cursed, and himself called son of a scorpion, by Halima.
Halima And The Scorpions: 1905 · Robert Hichens · Chapter 1