GRANDMOTHER


Meaning of GRANDMOTHER in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

great

He follows his great grandmother who played there in 1904.

maternal

It was the only time in her life that she had noticed her maternal grandmother at a disadvantage, on the defensive.

Pataki later revealed that his maternal grandmother and an uncle had entered the country illegally.

My maternal grandmother was a strong-willed woman.

My maternal grandmother , Ke-Son, was the only other person who went with him, as had been planned.

Three drops of herbal potion placed on my tongue by my maternal grandmother saved my life.

old

June Mathews is a 74-year-\#old grandmother from Menlo Park, Calif.

At 1 a. m., a woman older than your grandmother was clapping and singing lewd lyrics along with the band.

paternal

The infant girl was immediately named Margarett Williams Sargent for her paternal grandmother , who was eighty-three and ailing.

The boy's father and paternal grandmother applied, interalia, for an order for the boy to reside with the grandmother.

C.'s paternal grandmother applied for residence and contact.

In 1989 T. moved to live with her paternal grandmother and a year later she went to live with her boyfriend.

The boy's paternal grandmother had unsuccessfully applied for a residence order.

■ VERB

become

Recently she became a proud grandmother .

The point became moot when my grandmother offered us cookies and milk.

Other women would gladly put off becoming a grandmother , because it makes them feel old.

live

Police said the driver, who lives nearby with his grandmother , had failed a roadside breath test.

For the time being, her lawyer Robert Baum said, she would live with her grandmother in Northern California.

They lived with Dmitry's grandmother until Dmitry was nine and they applied to leave when Dmitry was about 16.

Now they lived with their grandmother on High Street.

In 1989 T. moved to live with her paternal grandmother and a year later she went to live with her boyfriend.

The summer I worked for Bill, I lived with my grandmother in Compton.

remember

Recollection of grandparents thus appears strongest between women: granddaughters remembering grandmothers .

My grandmother said they forgot because they were afraid to remember . 15 My grandmother died suddenly when I was almost sixteen.

But when I remembered practicing, I remembered my grandmother , not my father.

talk

We had a real trip down memory lane, talking about your grandmother as she was years ago.

I talked to his grandmother about it.

Uncle used to talk about her grandmother .

tell

Some one tells me their grandmother , father, auntie died.

Long ago, an aunt told me that my grandmother wash born out of wedlock.

My father tells stories about his grandmother holding the family together after Louie died.

visit

On a third visit she was visiting her grandmother .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

paternal grandmother/uncle etc

At the home of his paternal uncle he was very much at home.

C.'s paternal grandmother applied for residence and contact.

In 1989 T. moved to live with her paternal grandmother and a year later she went to live with her boyfriend.

The boy's paternal grandmother had unsuccessfully applied for a residence order.

The boy's father and paternal grandmother applied, interalia, for an order for the boy to reside with the grandmother.

The infant girl was immediately named Margarett Williams Sargent for her paternal grandmother, who was eighty-three and ailing.

teach your grandmother (to suck eggs)

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

His father died a few months after his birth and his grandmother then ruled as regent.

I looked just like the young girl my grandmother had shown me in her photograph albums.

If it turned out that my grandmother really was dying, I could fly back to be with her.

Nevertheless the grandmother was a strong influence.

The materials available to our grandmothers were either more toxic or less effective.

Then she explained that she lived at the villa and that Leonie was her grandmother , and Lais and Leonore her half-sisters.

Your grandmother believed we had indeed lost our souls.

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