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grandmother

/gran-muhth-er, grand-, gram-/US // ˈgrænˌmʌð ər, ˈgrænd-, ˈgræm- //UK // (ˈɡrænˌmʌðə, ˈɡrænd-) //

婆婆,祖母,姥姥,嬷嬷

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the mother of one's father or mother.
    • : a female ancestor.

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Examples

  • My grandmother was a great cook and she only let me and my cousin Patricia help her.

  • So today, when I finally got to hold the flute in my hands, I felt like it was my grandmother again.

  • One chief told me how his grandmother took his mother out to the wilderness for a year so that she would be safe.

  • This was not the old-school, traditional funeral home that you think of with grandmother in the lilac suit, in polyester, with the silken sheets around her and all the flowers.

  • Eighteen-year-old Stella, known as Lala to all but her grandmother Wilma, is about to give birth to her first child.

  • In 2011, he was arrested while visiting his grandmother in Iran, charged with espionage, and sentenced to death.

  • Through her haircare line, named for her grandmother, Jessie Branch, Titi Branch was revolutionary.

  • Why is a straight grandmother the leading advocate for gays in Cameroon?

  • There is this trinity of female mourning: for your grandmother, your mother, and your unborn daughter.

  • The seven-year-old Detroit girl was sleeping on the couch as her grandmother sat next to her watching television.

  • The year before they had spent part of the summer with their grandmother Pontellier in Iberville.

  • Alila's grandmother prepared a quantity of betel before the new baby was born.

  • That was a new idea to Hettie; and it puzzled her little brain for a minute: then she laughed out, "Shall I be their grandmother?"

  • The narrow individualism of the nineteenth century refused to recognize the social duty of supporting somebody else's grandmother.

  • At her bosom she wore a great brooch, containing intertwined locks of a grandfather and grandmother long since defunct.