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grandmother

Someone's grandmother is the mother of one of their parents. The mother of my mother is Jane Smith. Jane Smith is my grandmother. I have two grandmothers. They are the mother of my mother and the mother of my father.

grandmother

(= grandma) the mother of your father or mother

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Simple sentences

My sister resembles my grandmother.
She was brought up by her grandmother.
My grandmother cannot see.
My grandmother used to use her sewing machine a lot when she was younger.
Today's my grandmother's birthday.
My grandmother was devout.
It was a precious clock his grandmother, who was in the hospital, gave him.
These are my grandmother's artificial teeth.
Pretty soon along came to the village some strangely dressed people who called themselves surveyors; and they surveyed a line in front of my grandmother's little house.
Every day grandfather and grandmother gave the kitten plenty of milk, and soon the kitten grew nice and plump.
The woman who is sitting on the sofa is my grandmother.
The baby was taken care of by its grandmother.
Susan spent the summer vacation at her grandmother's.
This necklace of Jane's is a gift from her grandmother.
This is a picture of my grandmother.
My grandmother posted the letter this morning.
Grandmother takes great delight in watching television.
My grandmother lives by herself.
That little house looks just like the little house my grandmother lived in when she was a little girl, on a hill covered with daisies and apple trees growing around.
My youngest brother was brought up by our grandmother.
You probably think she told me she was on her way to visit her sick grandmother.
The child was named Sophia after her grandmother.
John's grandmother passed away after a long illness.
Your voice reminds me of my late grandmother.
Your grandmother is a charming lady.
We miss our dear grandmother.
My grandmother was a farmer.
My grandmother used to say that she would live to be a hundred, but she died at the age of 85.

Movie subtitles

Grandmother!
Mother, Grandmother, Elders.
Please, Mother, Grandmother!
Then call your ninth-generation ancestor grandmother.
Grandmother, thank you!
For that I'd marry the Devil's grandmother!
My grandmother wouldn't let him drink it.
If you please, Herr Baron, we thought that Mr Henry could do with a glass of his great-grandmother's wine.
Fine old lady, my grandmother.
Yeah, maybe it was her grandmother.
Yeah, I'll bring my grandmother.
I could be your grandmother.
And if your grandmother came here, what would you do?
Look at yourself. A Kabyle raped your grandmother!
One woman and one man was enough for your grandmother, but who wants to marry her? Nobody.
My grandmother wouldn't let him drink it. Bless her heart.
Once upon a time, there was a little girl by the name of Red Riding Hood. who had a very, very sick grandmother.
So Red Riding Hood's mother sent her with a great big basket to take to the grandmother.
You'd make your crippled grandmother do a fan dance for that paper.
You see, I'm my own grandmother, and I have to keep the old girl interested.
Thank you, Grandmother.
And I've got a grandfather and grandmother still around.
CAME DOWN HERE TO SEE MY GRANDMOTHER.
The way you talk, one would think we were living in my grandmother's day.
My grandmother wouldn't have.
My grandmother would have thought that a very silly agreement, and I've discovered she would have been right.
If you love me, if I've ever done anything for you that you appreciated even a little bit, for heaven's sake, take your grandmother with you.
My grandmother is chubbier than my grandfather.
I don't have any grandfather or grandmother.
I'm your grandmother.

News and current affairs

When I was seven years old, in 1960, my grandmother Angelica opened my eyes to the meaning of 8 May 1945, the day when Nazi Germany surrendered and World War II ended in Europe.
One evening, I listened to my parents and my grandmother talking about the past.
But of course, my grandmother was right to equate defeat with liberation.
The shooting, by automatic weapon fire, took place in broad daylight in a largely Roma neighborhood, where the grandmother of one of the victims lived.
PRINCETON - My grandmother was one of the first women to study mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna.
Bennett was a great-grandmother; if all had been well with her, she would have wanted to see the next generation grow up.
Today's young children often see more of their grandmother than of their mother.
I have an old fountain pen that belonged to my grandmother; it's a nice memento of her, but I wouldn't dream of using it to write this column.
The text starts from a given set of characters and situations (a little girl, a mother, a grandmother, a wolf, a wood) and through a series of steps arrives at a solution.
People like my grandmother had recounted only the oft-repeated male story, completely denying her own experience.
I will never forget what my great-grandmother Nina used to say about the corrupting nature of power in our own family.
In India, Rahul Gandhi is waiting in the wings, preparing to step into the shoes of his great-grandfather (Jawaharlal Nehru), grandmother (Indira Gandhi), and father (Rajiv Gandhi).
My grandmother lost all of her teeth during her life, and my parents lost many of theirs.
Esfandiari is a 67-year-old grandmother - just the right age to set about undermining Iran.
MOGADISHU - One of my earliest childhood memories is of swimming in a small gully near my grandmother's home in Yaaq Bari Wayne, a dusty collection of tin-roofed adobe buildings huddled together in the plains of southern Somalia's Bay region.

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