as in matriarch
the mother of your father or mother
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Recent Examples of grandmother
William is commemorating his late grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, on Monday, and has events on Tuesday and Wednesday as well.
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Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 8 Sep. 2025
This is actually a blanket one of our artists took from her grandmother.
—Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
In the story of the Japanese grandmother, her reason for waking up in the morning is to make soup for her family.
—Tracy Brower, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Her own mother, who was French, died in her 50s from breast cancer, as did her grandmother.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2025
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Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 8 Sep. 2025
This is actually a blanket one of our artists took from her grandmother.
—Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
In the story of the Japanese grandmother, her reason for waking up in the morning is to make soup for her family.
—Tracy Brower, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Her own mother, who was French, died in her 50s from breast cancer, as did her grandmother.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandmother
Noun
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Curtis plays Donna Berzatto, the matriarch of the Berzatto family, on The Bear.—
Carson Blackwelder,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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The subject of a true-crime podcast and television specials, the complicated family drama with its matriarch at the forefront was among this summer’s criminal cases of intrigue.—
Lauren del Valle,
CNN Money,
6 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, Alice, Dana’s ancestress, never becomes much more than a moral quandary: a stubborn victim who is unable to adapt.—
Julian Lucas,
The New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2021
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Yang Asha is the mythical ancestress of the Miao people, an ethnic minority in China closely related to the Hmong of Southeast Asia.—
Keith Bradsher,
New York Times,
26 Nov. 2020
Noun
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Her ancestor’s analytic model discouraged self-revelation by the therapist, but Freud often meets her guests’ excavations of desire and vulnerability with her own candid recollections.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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In Rea Rasmussen's case, the process took 18 months and required building genealogical connections back to ancestors born in the 1780s.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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Through our hair and its many rituals, remain the herbalism of our foremothers in the new world, passing down their ingenuity of homemade balms, creams, and oils for hair growth.—
Eshe Ukweli,
refinery29.com,
7 June 2023
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In fact, precursors to modern bleaching processes didn’t come on the scene until the turn of the 20th century, leaving our foremothers and forefathers plenty of time to get creative with their blonde pursuits.—
AJ Willingham,
CNN,
28 May 2023
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“Grandmother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandmother. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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