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单词 grandmother
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grandmother

(grænmʌðəʳ)
Word forms: plural grandmothers
countable noun
Your grandmother is the mother of your father or mother. You can call your grandmother 'Grandmother'.
My grandmothers are both widows.
Synonyms: gran, granny, grandma, nan More Synonyms of grandmother

grandmother in British English

(ˈɡrænˌmʌðə, ˈɡrænd-)
noun
1. 
the mother of one's father or mother
2. (often plural)
a female ancestor
3. (often capital)
a familiar term of address for an old woman
4.  teach one's grandmother to suck eggs

grandmother in American English

(ˈgrænˌmʌðər; ˈgrændˌmʌðər; ˈgræˌmʌðər)
noun
1. 
the mother of one's father or mother
also a term of respectful familiarity to any elderly woman
2. 
a female ancestor

More idioms containing
grandmother

teach your grandmother to suck eggs

Examples of 'grandmother' in a sentence
grandmother

I would love to be a grandmother one day.
The Sun (2017)
I've likened it to looking at your grandfather when your grandmother has just passed away.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
My grandfathers and grandmothers served during the second world war.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
She needs to give her grandmother a call about that.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
She considered cancelling the appointment when her grandmother died.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Sharing the tiny apartment were one of his grandmothers and a spinster aunt.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
She said her focus for the next few months was becoming a grandmother for the first time.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
So did her father and her grandmother.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
My grandfather has died and my grandmother is now too old to stay there.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
My grandmother worked in one of the cotton mills.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Initial attempts to find revolutionary grandmothers were at first met with grumpy rejection.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
My grandmother and father were allowed to accompany him.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
They had three daughters to add to the daughter that my grandmother already had from a previous marriage.
Carlos Acosta No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale (2007)
 My grandmother was one of the very fi rst female doctors, an incredible woman.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The Emmerdale babe saved her mum and grandmother when their house went up in flames.
The Sun (2006)
The back of my grandmother's house formed a fourth wall.
Eddison, Sydney A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden (1990)
When our parents split, we moved into this trailer with our grandmother and grandfather.
The Sun (2008)
Bird food, my grandmother would have called it.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Other pieces came from my grandmother's house.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
I talk to my grandmother about this all the time.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Our daughters chose their grandmother.
Christianity Today (2000)
After the death of her little daughter my grandmother was for the rest of her life unable to listen to music because it made her cry.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Sometimes I talk to my grandmother about the strangeness of remembering things that no longer physically exist.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
People are always saying: 'My grandmother is in love with you.
The Sun (2013)
You won't mind sleeping with such a very young woman, grandmother?
George MacDonald The Princess and the Goblin (1872)
He added: 'My grandmother always told me.
The Sun (2006)

In other languages
grandmother

British English: grandmother /ˈɡrænˌmʌðə/ NOUN
Your grandmother is the mother of your father or mother. You can call your grandmother 'Grandmother'.
My grandmothers are both widows.
  • American English: grandmother
  • Arabic: جَدَّة
  • Brazilian Portuguese: avó
  • Chinese: 祖母
  • Croatian: baka
  • Czech: babička
  • Danish: bedstemor
  • Dutch: grootmoeder
  • European Spanish: abuela
  • Finnish: isoäiti
  • French: grand-mère
  • German: Großmutter
  • Greek: γιαγιά
  • Italian: nonna
  • Japanese: 祖母
  • Korean: 할머니
  • Norwegian: bestemor
  • Polish: babcia
  • European Portuguese: avó
  • Romanian: bunica
  • Russian: бабушка
  • Latin American Spanish: abuela
  • Swedish: farmor paternal
  • Thai: ย่า ยาย
  • Turkish: büyükanne
  • Ukrainian: бабуся
  • Vietnamese: bà

All related terms of 'grandmother'

grandmother clock
a longcase clock with a pendulum , about two thirds the size of a grandfather clock
great-grandmother
the mother of a grandparent
paternal grandmother
the mother of someone's father
teach your grandmother to suck eggs
to give advice about something to someone who actually knows more about it than you do
teach one's grandmother to suck eggs
to presume to teach someone something that he or she knows already

Chinese translation of 'grandmother'

grandmother

(ˈɡrænmʌðəʳ)

n (c)

  1. (on mother's side) 外婆 (wàipó) (位, wèi)
  2. (on father's side) 奶奶 (nǎinai) (位, wèi)
(noun) 
Definition
the mother of one's father or mother
My grandmothers are both widows.
Synonyms
gran
granny
grandma
nan

Synonyms of 'grandmother'

grandmother

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