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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grandmother
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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grandmother

Grandmother \Grand"moth"er\, n. The mother of one's father or mother.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grandmother

early 15c., from grand (adj.) + mother (n.1), probably on analogy of French grand-mère. Replaced earlier grandame (c.1200) and Old English ealdemodor.

Wiktionary
grandmother

n. 1 A mother of someone's parent. 2 A female ancestor or progenitor.

WordNet
grandmother

n. the mother of your father or mother [syn: grandma, granny, grannie, gran]

Wikipedia
Grandmother
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Grandmother (2009 film)

Grandmother, also known as Lola, is a 2009 French-Filipino independent drama film directed by Brillante Mendoza. It was entered into the main competition at the 66th edition of the Venice Film Festival.

Grandmother (1910 film)

Grandmother is an American silent film produced by Kalem Company and possibly directed by Sidney Olcott.

Usage examples of "grandmother".

As she pulled up to the wide circle in front of the house with its wraparound porch, her grandmother, Rose Abruzzi, was already coming down the steps to greet her, a welcoming smile on her face.

Grandmother Adelia reclines on a chaise, a heavy-lidded, handsome woman, in many draperies and a long double string of pearls and a plunging, lace-bordered neckline, her white forearms boneless as rolled chicken.

Grandmother Adelia would never have allowed the marriage, or so I decided later.

The right-hand one, commissioned by my Grandmother Adelia, is of Colonel Parkman, a veteran of the last decisive battle fought in the American Revolution, that of Fort Ticonderoga, now in New York State.

Grandmother Adelia was different, and far enough removed in time so that I could idealize her.

The boxlike room, stripped of all embellishment or parlor fussiness, a room that wished to be timeless or ahistorical, and there, in the middle of it, my deeply historical, timeworn grandmother.

And grandmamma sent a further message to Heidi which was that the latter had done quite right to take the rolls to the grandmother, and so that she might not have to eat them dry, she was sending some coffee, which was already on its way, and grandmamma hoped when she came to the Alm in the autumn that Heidi would take her to see her old friend.

She rejoiced that she had missed the family meal, for it was not easy to sit at the table with Grandmother and Cousin Tom and Aunt Alphonsine, unspoken comments on her position hanging from each face like stalactites.

The day after their meeting she had found Aunt Alphonsine all a dry frightened gibber, holding a whitefaced conference with Grandmother in the parlour, and they had asked her if she had known that Peacey had left Torque Hall that morning.

Richard chose to stay with his grandmother at Birkhall, her house on the Balmoral estate nestling between sloping woods of birch and pine and its own concave garden hedged with yew.

Her maternal grandfather had been a Borneo headhunter and her maternal grandmother a Batak and a cannibal.

Barry, Crover, Caesar, Hector, John, Helen, myself, and Tom Bluestem, we all got in the ranch truck and Grandmother Bluestem drove us to Lost Moon Canyon.

V had his tenth birthday, and Grandmother Bluestem who said that she was either fifty or a hundred years, she forgot which, she was weak at numbers.

Then we heard Grandmother Bluestem honking the horn of the ranch truck far below and to the south of us.

He had discharged himself without fuss from an Academy for the Sons of Gentlemen in Brno, and from the British public school recommended by his grandmother, the redoubtable Nora Coutts, who lived in a wing of the house drinking Earl Grey tea from Harrods and bullying him about the syntax of the English language.