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paternal grandmother

n. One's father's mother; the grandmother on one's father's side.

Usage examples of "paternal grandmother".

The priest said words over the couple, while the new Emperor slipped two diamond rings onto the marriage finger of Anirul's hand, followed by a breathtaking red soostone band that had belonged to his paternal grandmother.

I have said that my paternal grandmother offered to receive us, and not my paternal grandfather, who was still alive.

The thing was: The disease, if they had it, had come to the brothers through their paternal grandmother, who was the second wife of their paternal grandfather, and who had only one child -- their father, the Ecuadorian sculptor and architect, Sebastian von Kleist.

My paternal grandmother was Jessica, a product of the Bene Gesserit breeding scheme in their search for a male who could share the powers of the Sisterhood's Reverend Mothers.

My paternal grandmother and my mother were both pureblooded Germans.

I remember that I lived with them, as I remained there with my brother, till I was seven years old, at which period my paternal grandmother offered to receive my brother and me and take charge of our education.

But then there was Janet's paternal grandmother's paternal clan, and his own family's linked clans.

Talya, a redhead like Sionell, resembled the paternal grandmother for whom she had been Named.

Children are living at home of paternal grandmother in Pimlington East where they were evacuated during the heavy bombing of London.

She died giving birth to him, and he was raised by his paternal grandmother in Lithuania while his father strutted through the Party Central Committee in Vilnius, awaiting his promotion to Moscow.

And it was Michael's mother's paternal grandmother who had squandered the entire fortune.