Synonyms of grandmothers

grandmothers

noun

plural of grandmother

as in grandfathers

the mother of your father or mother

Related Words

• grandfathers
• matriarchs
• foremothers
• forefathers
• ancestors
• forebears
• forebearers
• ancestresses
• progenitors
• predecessors
• patriarchs
• primogenitors
• grandsires
• antecessors
• antecedents
• sires
• ancestries
• roots

Dissimilar Words

• children
• families
• offspring
• daughters
• issues
• sons
• seed
• stocks
• lineages
• heirs
• successors
• progenies
• descendants
• posterities
• inheritors
• scions

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of grandmothers

Tyler told her the procession put a smile on everyone’s face, particularly when the grandmothers abandoned the usual petal-tossing technique and began throwing flowers at the guests instead. — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026

The Role of Early Bonding With Grandparents The preference for maternal grandparents may start early, with maternal grandmothers anecdotally being more likely to be invited into the delivery room. — Susan Adcox, Parents, 15 Sep. 2026

Two grandmothers investigate alongside their granddaughter and a police officer. — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026

The turnout kept the small restaurant busy throughout the day, even prompting one of Henry's grandmothers to jump in and help wait tables. — Nick Lunemann, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2026

Grandmacore cooking is the name younger people have given to picking up baking, bread-making and the from-scratch kitchen skills that many grandmothers have practiced for a lifetime. — Ashley Lynch, Charlotte Observer, 3 Sep. 2026

Despite my awareness of this image, there was also the dim sense that her kind of glamorous feminism didn’t directly apply to the kind my grandmothers had needed. — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026

His grandmothers were hatmakers, his aunts were hatmakers, his mother was a hatmaker, and so, too, was Amélie. — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

Black beauty consumers started going back to the natural ingredients their grandmothers might have used, Addae says. — Ava Welsing-Kitcher, Allure, 24 Aug. 2026