Grandmother

Definition: Grandmother

Grandmother

Noun

1. The mother of your father or mother.

Date "grandmother" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Domain	Definition
Literature	Grandmother My grandmother's review, the British Review. Lord Byron said, in a sort of jest, "I bribed my grandmother's review. " The editor of the British called him to account, and this gave the poet a fine opportunity of pointing the battery of his satire against the periodical. (Don Juan.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Grandmother

Synonyms: gran (n), grandma (n), grannie (n), granny (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Fool	Dotard, driveler; old fogey, old woman, crock; crone, grandmother; cotquean, henhussy.
Insolence	Out face, outlook, outstare, outbrazen, outbrave; stare out of countenance; brazen out; lay down the law; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; assume a lofty bearing; talk big, look big; put on big looks, act the grand seigneur; mount the high horse, ride the high horse; toss the head, carry, with a high hand.
Paternity	Motherhood, maternity; mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias, grandmother.
Redundancy	Send coals to Newcastle, carry coals to Newcastle, carry owls to Athens; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; pisces natare docere;kill the slain, " gild refined gold", "gild the lily", butter one's bread on both sides, put butter upon bacon; employ a steam engine to crack a nut; (waste).
Teaching	Preach to the wise, teach one's grandmother to suck eggs, teach granny to suck eggs; preach to the converted.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Grandmother

English words defined with "grandmother": alphabetic character, Ascending line ♦ dozing, dozy, drowsing, drowsy ♦ Grandam, Grandmamma, Grandmotherly, Great-grandfather, Great-grandmother ♦ letter, letter of the alphabet, Little Red Ricing Hood ♦ Mammothrept ♦ nan, napping, nodding ♦ shout. (references)

Specialty definitions using "grandmother": Bejan ♦ Cummer ♦ GRANNUM'S GOLD ♦ Lois ♦ Nepotism. (references)

Etymologies containing "grandmother": Uncle. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I would sell my grandmother for a drink - and you know how I love my grandmother (The Philadelphia Story; writing credit: Donald Ogden Stewart) You know what my grandmother used to say (Amores perros; writing credit: Guillermo Arriaga) No one sleeps with my grandmother! (Space Ghost Coast to Coast; writing credit: Ben Karlin) Lola will be his mum, and my mum will be his dad. And I'll be his brother, but his father too, and the son of his dad and of his grandmother and his mothers ex-lover (101 Reykjavík; writing credit: Hallgrímur Helgason; Baltasar Kormákur) It all started the day my Grandmother exploded (The Crow Road; writing credit: Iain Banks; Bryan Elsley)
Movie/TV Titles	The Grandmother (1970) Wanted... a Grandmother (1912) The Grandmother (1909) Grandmother Tells (1984) The Electric Grandmother (1982)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother (reference) Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (reference) The Long Distance Grandmother 4 Ed: How to Stay Close to Distant Grandchildren (reference) Anna, Woman of Miracles: The Story of the Grandmother of Jesus (reference) Oliver, Amanda, and Grandmother Pig (Puffin Easy-To-Read Level 2) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	La Kanta Nona (The Grandmother (reference) Songs of My Grandmother (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Pictured is a Mormon grandmother and granddaughter outside and smiling. The grandmother is carrying the child "piggy-back" and is holding some leaves. The Mormons are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).		Shown are 3 generations of black women under a gazebo-mother, grandmother and daughter. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).
	Grandmother to the bride: the neglected branch of your education. Credit: Library of Congress.		Say what are you trying to do? attract attention? : why, you look like somebody's grandmother!. Credit: Library of Congress.
	If your office boy said his grandmother was dead -- and your bookkeeper said his ... Credit: Library of Congress.		Mountain View, Calif., April 1942 - a grandmother and the youngest of 13 grandchildren photographed on a ranch in Santa Clara county before evacuees of Japanese ancestry were transferred to War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Grandmother Briggs. Credit: Library of Congress.		Joanette Clark Benjamin, Frances Benjamin Johnston's maternal grandmother, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left] / C. Adele Fussell(?) 1880. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Barto, Berks county, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Springer, Mrs. Evan's grandmother, in the living room on the farm of Thomas G. Evans, a FSA (Farm Security Administration) client. Credit: Library of Congress.		Grandmother and child, Southeast Missouri Farms. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Phil Moss	A grandmother is a person with too much wisdom to let that stop her from making a fool of herself over her grandchildren.
Susan B. Anthony	Modern invention has banished the spinning-wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
William Shakespeare	A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	We knew a grandmother who succeeded in making from Theodore, Gnon
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	The company were the farmer and his wife, three children, and an old grandmother.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		My grandmother, however, was busy and active her whole life. Once I talk to my doctor and decide how to handle my menopause symptoms, what else do I need to do to stay healthy? Certainly there are things that I can do to ensure good health as I get older. (references)
		For your grandmother or great-grandmother, life expectancy was shorter and reaching menopause did mean that their life was nearing its end. Not so for you because today we are all living longer—on average, until 78. Make the most of the 20, 30, or more years you have ahead. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Mariah Carey	This is the one I had. It's kind of like a jokey one, but then when I found out that my grandmother had one, I thought it was just an interesting parallel.
Rush Limbaugh	The Democrats scare their voters into thinking that, if you don't vote for the Democratic candidate, the Republican will kill your grandmother, put arsenic in the water, steal food from Little Timmy's mouth and destroy the earth itself.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Grandmother" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.26% of the time. "Grandmother" is used about 1,415 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	96.26%	1,363	5,854
Noun (proper)	3.74%	53	46,657
Total	100.00%	1,415	N/A

Expressions using "grandmother": don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs ♦ great grandmother ♦ maternal grandmother ♦ paternal grandmother ♦ teach one's grandmother to suck eggs. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "grandmother": grandmother-footstepping, Grandmother-in-law, grandmother-tales, grandmother-who-was-not.
	Ending with "grandmother": step-grandmother.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "grandmother"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		grootmoeder. (various references)

Albanian		gjyshe (grandma, Grandmamma, grandparent, grannie, granny). (various references)

Arabic		‏جدة (grandma, grandmamma, grandparent, granny, nanny, originality, recency), ‏أم الأب أو الأم. (various references)

Asturian		güela. (various references)

Aymara		ahuicha. (various references)

Basque		amona. (various references)

Bemba		mama. (various references)

Bulgarian		баба (grandma, grannie, granny, mother, old woman, wise woman, woman). (various references)

Catalan		avia. (various references)

Cebuano		apohang babaye. (various references)

Chamorro		guella. (various references)

Chinese		祖母, 婆 (matron, mother-in-law). (various references)

Cornish		damawyn. (various references)

Czech		babička, babièka (gran, grandma, Grandmamma, grannie, granny). (various references)

Danish		bedstemoder. (various references)

Dutch		grootmoeder, oma (granny). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua		jatunmama. (various references)

Esperanto		avino. (various references)

Faeroese		omma. (various references)

Farsi		مادربزرگ (Grandma, Granny), مثل مادربزرگ رفتارکردن . (various references)

Finnish		mummo (granny, old woman), isoäiti, isänemä, emänemä. (various references)

French		grand-mère (grandma), aïeule. (various references)

Frisian		oarremem, beppe. (various references)

German		Großmutter (grandma). (various references)

Greek		γιαγιά (gran, grandma, grannie, granny). (various references)

Guarani		jarýindive (with the grandmother). (various references)

Hawaiian		gjyshe. (various references)

Hebrew		זקנה (eldely lady, old woman), סבתא (grandma). (various references)

Hungarian		nagyanya (beldam), nagymama (Babushka, grandma, Grandmamma, grannie, granny). (various references)

Icelandic		amma. (various references)

Indonesian		nenek, andung. (various references)

Inuktitut		anaanattiaq. (various references)

Irish		seanmhÚthair, mÚthair mhor, mÚthair chríonna. (various references)

Italian		nonna (grandma, grandparent, granny). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		祖母 , お祖母さん (female senior-citizen), お婆さん (female senior-citizen), 御祖母さん (female senior-citizen), 御婆さん (female senior-citizen), 婆さん . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おばあさん (female senior-citizen), そぼ, ばあさん. (various references)

Kongo		nkaka wa nkento. (various references)

Korean		할머니 (grannie, granny). (various references)

Lombard		nonna. (various references)

Macedonian		baba. (various references)

Malay		nenek. (various references)

Manx		shenn voir (grandparent), grannee. (various references)

Maya		chiich. (various references)

Norwegian		bestemor (grand-mother). (various references)

Occitan		grand (mair). (various references)

Papago		kahk. (various references)

Papiamen		wela, madushi, madú. (various references)

Pig Latin		andmothergray.(various references)

Polish		babka. (various references)

Portuguese		avó. (various references)

Quechua		jatun-mama. (various references)

Romanian		bunicã (gammer, grand ma, grand mamma, grandam, Grandmamma, granny), bunã (good, why). (various references)

Romansch		tatta. (various references)

Romany		mami. (various references)

Ruanda		nyogokuru. (various references)

Russian		бабушка (gran, grandma, grandmamma, grannie, granny, nan). (various references)

Samoan		tina o matua. (various references)

Scottish		seanmhair. (various references)

Sepedi		mmakgolo. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		baka (cummer, grandma, grandmamma, grannie, granny), baba (gammer, old woman). (various references)

Shona		ambuya. (various references)

Sicilian		nanna. (various references)

Sotho		nkgono. (various references)

Spanish		abuela (grandma). (various references)

Sranan		granm'ma. (various references)

Swazi		gógo. (various references)

Swedish		mormor (gran, grandfather, grandma, Grandmamma, grannie, granny, maternal grandmother), farmor (gran, grandma, Grandmamma, grannie, granny, paternal grandmother). (various references)

Thai		ยายทวด (great-grandmother). (various references)

Turkish		büyükanne (grandam, grandma, Grandmamma, grannie, granny, progenitress). (various references)

Turkmen		ene. (various references)

Ukrainian		зніжувати (emolliate), балувати (cosher, cosset, featherbed, mollycoddle, pamper, sugarplum), бабуся (grandma, grannie, granny), бабка (darning needle, dragon-fly, grandma, knucklebone, pastern), предок по жіночій лінії. (various references)

Vietnamese		bà (ancestress, madam, missis, missus, signora). (various references)

Welsh		nain, mam-gu, henfam. (various references)

Xhosa		nomamomkhulu (With grandmother). (various references)

Yucatec		mamich, chiich. (various references)

Zulu		ugogo. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	ava, avia, avis, hava, havam. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	2 Timothy Chapter 1, Verse 5
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Upomnhsin lambanwn thV en soi anupokritou pistewV htiV enwkhsen prwton en th mammh sou lwidi kai th mhtri sou euneikh pepeismai de oti kai en soi
Latin	405	Vulgate	Recordationem accipiens eius fidei quae est in te non ficta quae et habitavit primum in avia tua Loide et matre tua Eunice certus sum autem quod et in te
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And Y bithenke of that feith, that is in thee not feyned, which also dwellide firste in thin aunte Loide, and in thi modir Eunyce. And Y am certeyn, that also in thee.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Whe I call to remembraunce the vnfayned fayth that is in the which dwelt fyrst in thy graumoder Lois and in thy mother Eunica: and am assured that it dwelleth in the also.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Having in mind your true faith, which first was in your mother's mother Lois, and in your mother Eunice, and, I am certain, is now in you.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	2 Timothy Chapter 1, Verse 5
Cebuano	Mahinumduman ko ang imong tinuod nga pagtoo, ang pagtoo nga sa sinugdan diha sa imong apohang babaye nga si Loida ug sa imong inahan nga si Eunice ug nga karon, ginasaligan ko, anaa usab kanimo.
Croatian	imajuæi na pameti neprijetvornu vjeru koja je u tebi - onu vjeru koja je najprije prebivala u tvojoj baki Loidi i tvojoj majci Euniki, a uvjeren sam, i u tebi.
Danish	idet jeg er bleven mindet om den uskrømtede Tro, som er i dig, den, som boede først i din Mormoder Lois og din Moder Eunike, og jeg er vis på, at den også bor i dig.
Dutch	Als ik mij in gedachtenis breng het ongeveinsd geloof, dat in u is, hetwelk eerst gewoond heeft in uw grootmoeder Lois, en in uw moeder Eunice; en ik ben verzekerd, dat het ook in u woont.
Finnish	kun mieleeni muistuu se vilpitön usko, joka sinulla on, joka ensin oli isoäidilläsi Looiksella ja äidilläsi Eunikellä ja joka, siitä olen varma, on sinullakin.
French	gardant le souvenir de la foi sincère qui est en toi, qui habita d`abord dans ton aïeule Loïs et dans ta mère Eunice, et qui, j`en suis persuadé, habite aussi en toi.
German	und wenn ich mich erinnere des ungefärbten Glaubens in dir, welcher zuvor gewohnt hat in deiner Großmutter Lois und deiner Mutter Eunike; ich bin aber gewiß, auch in dir.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Saya teringat akan kepercayaanmu yang sungguh-sungguh kepada Kristus, sama seperti kepercayaan nenekmu Lois dan ibumu Eunike. Dan saya yakin engkau pun percaya seperti itu.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	sambil teringat-ingat akan iman yang sungguh di dalam dirimu, yang mula-mula sudah diam di dalam hati nenekmu Lois dan ibumu Eunike itu, tetapi telah yakinlah aku bahwa di dalam engkau pun ada.
Latvian	Es atceros tavu neliekuïoto ticîbu, kas agrâk piemita tavai vecmâmuïai Loidai un tavai mâtei Eunikai, un es esmu pârliecinâts, ka arî tev.
Maori	Ka hoki ake nei toku mahara ki te whakapono tinihangakore i roto i a koe; i noho tuatahi ra i roto i tou tupuna wahine, i a Roihi, i tou whaea hoki, i a Unihi; a e tino mohio ana ahau kei roto ano i a koe.
Norwegian	da jeg er blitt minnet om den uskrømtede tro som er i dig, den som først bodde i din mormor Lois og din mor Eunike, og som jeg er viss på også bor i dig.
Rumanian	Kmi aduc aminte de credinya ta neprefqcutq, care s`a sqlqwluit kntki kn bunica ta Lois wi kn mama ta Eunice, wi sknt kncredinyat cq wi kn tine.
Russian	РТЙЧПДС ОБ РБНСФШ ОЕМЙГЕНЕТОХА ЧЕТХ ФЧПА, ЛПФПТБС РТЕЦДЕ ПВЙФБМБ Ч ВБВЛЕ ФЧПЕК мПЙДЕ Й НБФЕТЙ ФЧПЕК еЧОЙЛЕ; ХЧЕТЕО, ЮФП ПОБ Й Ч ФЕВЕ.
Shuar	Yus nekas shiir Enentáimtiniaitmena nuna nékajai. Nukuchrum Ruítiasha tura ame nuku Eunisiasha emka Yúsan nekas Enentáimtin ármiayi. Amesha Núnisketme.
Swahili	Naikumbuka imani yako ya kweli, imani aliyokuwa nayo nyanya yako Loisi, na pia mama yako Eunike. Nina hakika kwamba wewe pia unayo.
Uma	Motarima kasi mpu'u-a hi Alata'ala, apa' kukiwoi moto pepangala' -nu hi Pue' Yesus hante nono-nu mpu'u. Lomo' -na to mepangala' hi Yesus, ntu'a-nu Lois pai' tina-nu Eunike. Pai' iko wo'o Timotius, kuparasaya pepangala' -nu bate hewa pepangala' -ra tina-nu pai' ntu'a-nu.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "grandmother": grandmotherly, grandmothers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Grandmother" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: grandmaother, grandmoth. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "grandmother" (pronounced gra"ndmu'ther, gra"nmu'ther , or gra"mu'ther)
5	-d m u' th er	godmother.
4	-m u' th er	stepmother.
4	-m u' th er	godmother, stepmother.
4	-m u' th er	godmother, stepmother.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-h-m-n-o-r-r-t"
	-3 letters: dragomen, dragonet, garroted, goatherd, methadon, montaged, mortared, renogram, thronged.
	-4 letters: adorner, another, armored, dormant, dragnet, garment, garoted, garrote, gnarred, gormand, grander, granted, granter, grantor, groaned, groaner, hagrode, herdman, hoarder, hogmane, homaged, homager, horrent, madrone, magneto, marengo, margent, megaton, menorah, montage, mordant, mordent, negator, norther, readorn, regrant, tangoed, teraohm, thonged, thorned, throned, tonearm.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-h-m-n-o-r-r-t"
	+1 letter: grandmothers.
	+2 letters: grandmotherly.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
grandmother	457	grandmother hot	12
grandmother and poem	293	electric grandmother	11
grandmother hiawathas	111	great grandmother	10
grandmother clock	75	birthday grandmother poem	10
grandmother bracelet	52	flower garden grandmother pattern quilt	9
grandmother name	48	free grandmother poem	9
grandmother gift	46	grandmother slutty	9
old grandmother	44	grandmother great poem	9
grandmother poetry	32	naughty grandmother	9
grandmother quote	29	grandmother mature	8
grandmother flower garden	27	birthday card grandmother	8
grandmother tgp	26	grandmother ring	8
grandmother hiawatha	21	grandmother jewelry	8
flower garden grandmother quilt	19	garden grandmother	7
grandmother grandson	17	grandmother story	7
death grandmother poem	16	tribute to grandmother	7
grandmother nickname	16	death grandmother	7
grandmother picture	14	grandmother son	6
eulogy for grandmother	13	grandmother day	6
calling grandmother	13	grandmother gift idea	6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Grandmother

Definition: Grandmother

Grandmother

Noun

Specialty Definition: Grandmother

Synonyms: Grandmother

Synonyms within Context: Grandmother

Fool

Insolence

Paternity

Redundancy

Teaching

Crosswords: Grandmother

Modern Usage: Grandmother

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Familiar Quotations: Grandmother

Phil Moss

Susan B. Anthony

William Shakespeare

Use in Literature: Grandmother

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Non-Fiction Usage: Grandmother

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Grandmother

Mariah Carey

Rush Limbaugh

Usage Frequency: Grandmother

Expression: Grandmother

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Grandmother

Modern Translation: Grandmother

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