noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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He follows his great grandmother who played there in 1904.
maternal
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It was the only time in her life that she had noticed her maternal grandmother at a disadvantage, on the defensive.
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Pataki later revealed that his maternal grandmother and an uncle had entered the country illegally.
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My maternal grandmother was a strong-willed woman.
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My maternal grandmother , Ke-Son, was the only other person who went with him, as had been planned.
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Three drops of herbal potion placed on my tongue by my maternal grandmother saved my life.
old
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June Mathews is a 74-year-\#old grandmother from Menlo Park, Calif.
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At 1 a. m., a woman older than your grandmother was clapping and singing lewd lyrics along with the band.
paternal
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The infant girl was immediately named Margarett Williams Sargent for her paternal grandmother , who was eighty-three and ailing.
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The boy's father and paternal grandmother applied, interalia, for an order for the boy to reside with the grandmother.
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C.'s paternal grandmother applied for residence and contact.
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In 1989 T. moved to live with her paternal grandmother and a year later she went to live with her boyfriend.
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The boy's paternal grandmother had unsuccessfully applied for a residence order.
■ VERB
become
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Recently she became a proud grandmother .
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The point became moot when my grandmother offered us cookies and milk.
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Other women would gladly put off becoming a grandmother , because it makes them feel old.
live
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Police said the driver, who lives nearby with his grandmother , had failed a roadside breath test.
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For the time being, her lawyer Robert Baum said, she would live with her grandmother in Northern California.
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They lived with Dmitry's grandmother until Dmitry was nine and they applied to leave when Dmitry was about 16.
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Now they lived with their grandmother on High Street.
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In 1989 T. moved to live with her paternal grandmother and a year later she went to live with her boyfriend.
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The summer I worked for Bill, I lived with my grandmother in Compton.
remember
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Recollection of grandparents thus appears strongest between women: granddaughters remembering grandmothers .
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My grandmother said they forgot because they were afraid to remember . 15 My grandmother died suddenly when I was almost sixteen.
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But when I remembered practicing, I remembered my grandmother , not my father.
talk
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We had a real trip down memory lane, talking about your grandmother as she was years ago.
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I talked to his grandmother about it.
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Uncle used to talk about her grandmother .
tell
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Some one tells me their grandmother , father, auntie died.
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Long ago, an aunt told me that my grandmother wash born out of wedlock.
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My father tells stories about his grandmother holding the family together after Louie died.
visit
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On a third visit she was visiting her grandmother .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
paternal grandmother/uncle etc
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At the home of his paternal uncle he was very much at home.
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C.'s paternal grandmother applied for residence and contact.
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In 1989 T. moved to live with her paternal grandmother and a year later she went to live with her boyfriend.
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The boy's paternal grandmother had unsuccessfully applied for a residence order.
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The boy's father and paternal grandmother applied, interalia, for an order for the boy to reside with the grandmother.
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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
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His father died a few months after his birth and his grandmother then ruled as regent.
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I looked just like the young girl my grandmother had shown me in her photograph albums.
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If it turned out that my grandmother really was dying, I could fly back to be with her.
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Nevertheless the grandmother was a strong influence.
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The materials available to our grandmothers were either more toxic or less effective.
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Then she explained that she lived at the villa and that Leonie was her grandmother , and Lais and Leonore her half-sisters.
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Your grandmother believed we had indeed lost our souls.