单词 | grandmother |
释义 | grandmother (once / 303 pages) n Your grandmother is your mom or dad's mother. In many traditional cultures, a grandmother lives with her adult child's family and helps raise her grandchildren. Everyone has two biological grandmothers, maternal (your mother's mother) and paternal (your father's mother). If you're lucky, your grandmother is someone you get to know well. One of the most well-known fictional grandmothers appears in "Little Red Riding Hood," the fairy tale in which a wolf disguises himself as Red Riding Hood's grandmother in an attempt to fool her into being eaten. WORD FAMILYgrandmother: grandmothers USAGE EXAMPLESThen his grandmother ordered him to board that school bus. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) Coroner David West says the child left the apartment while his grandmother was braiding her granddaughter’s hair. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Ms. Cook-Lopez’s father and grandfather ran Cook & Son Television Service, where customers would notice her grandmother, Virginia, working with yarn. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) n the mother of your father or mother Syn|Hypo|Hyper gran, grandma, grannie, granny, nan, nanna nan your grandmother grandparent a parent of your father or mother |
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