as in matriarch
the mother of your father or mother
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Recent Examples of grandmother
On his father’s side, Charles’ paternal grandmother was Mary Elizabeth Lucas, daughter of Wingate and Cornelia Lucas, who were significant farmers and merchants.
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Paris Goodman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 June 2025
The name Kumba’s African Market has a dual significance as Kumba was the name of Porter’s grandmother.
—David Sharos, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2025
McKellar stars as a flight attendant who takes a road trip to her grandmother’s Kentucky farm and reunites with her childhood friend, played by Donovan.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 20 June 2025
His grandmother was said to have been a white woman from England who had taken up with a Black man in North Carolina just after slavery ended.
—Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 14 June 2025
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Paris Goodman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 June 2025
The name Kumba’s African Market has a dual significance as Kumba was the name of Porter’s grandmother.
—David Sharos, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2025
McKellar stars as a flight attendant who takes a road trip to her grandmother’s Kentucky farm and reunites with her childhood friend, played by Donovan.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 20 June 2025
His grandmother was said to have been a white woman from England who had taken up with a Black man in North Carolina just after slavery ended.
—Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 14 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandmother
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The matriarch started smelling fruit, weighing the spiky samples with her hands and haggling with the seller.—
Tom Downey,
Smithsonian Magazine,
26 June 2025
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The story revolves around Mariamma, a child bride at age 12, who grows to become the powerful matriarch of the family.—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 June 2025
Noun
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The intersection of these two facts does convince me that William's genealogical ancestress, Eliza Kewark, did have South Asian ancestry (not totally surprising even in notionally ethnically distinct groups like Armenians or Parsis who have been long resident in India).—
Razib Khan,
Discover Magazine,
14 June 2013
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Instead of being a reticulated mesh the genealogy of mtDNA is a clean and inverted elegant tree leading back to a common ancestress.—
Razib Khan,
Discover Magazine,
17 Nov. 2010
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As Charles Handy explained in The Age of Paradox, modern life forces us to navigate complexities our ancestors never faced, such as the tension between efficiency and humanity or between individual freedom and collective responsibility.—
Shane Enete,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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Throughout the middle passage, it has been said that our ancestors wove familiar items such as beads, shells, or even seeds and grains from home into their braids, to keep with them along their journeys.—
Essence,
Essence,
19 June 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 7 Jul. 2025.
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