grandmother

noun

Definition of grandmothernext
as in matriarch
the mother of your father or mother

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Recent Examples of grandmother After who-knows-how-many seasons of working the concessions stand at various football and basketball games, my grandmother became Williamsburg County famous for her hot dog chili. — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 3 July 2026 Dondi Voigt Persyn, a mother of three and grandmother of four from Boerne, Texas – on a hill above the Guadalupe River about 35 miles from the disaster zone – joined as a volunteer. — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 6 July 2026 Her parents had taken her to visit her great-grandmother Athalia Howe Whitfield (Grandma Thalia), a native of Wilmington, North Carolina, who by then was living in Pennsylvania. — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 3 July 2026 On Thursday, July 2, Zeff Nikollbibaj appeared by video from the Oakland County Jail for his arraignment in connection with the death of his grandmother, Ana Nikollbibaj, local outlets CBS Detroit and Click on Detroit reported. — Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for grandmother
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  1. matriarch
  2. ancestress
  3. ancestor
  4. foremother
Noun
  • Brown remembered that Sarah Parsley, the octogenarian matriarch of the family, greeted partygoers from a wheelchair, assisted by a Black nurse.
    — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 3 July 2026
  • After high school, the Kelce matriarch became the first person in her family to graduate from college, earning a bachelor’s degree in communications from Ohio University.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 2 July 2026
Definition of matriarch
Noun
  • Meanwhile, Alice, Dana’s ancestress, never becomes much more than a moral quandary: a stubborn victim who is unable to adapt.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Yang Asha is the mythical ancestress of the Miao people, an ethnic minority in China closely related to the Hmong of Southeast Asia.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2020
Definition of ancestress
Noun
  • This type of eating pattern mimics the pattern of our ancestors, which is directly connected with our innate metabolism.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026
  • Gendron said his ancestors were among the first outsiders to settle the island in the 1700s, when three brothers, fur traders all, left Canada and followed the Mississippi south.
    — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
Definition of ancestor
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  • Through our hair and its many rituals, remain the herbalism of our foremothers in the new world, passing down their ingenuity of homemade balms, creams, and oils for hair growth.
    — Eshe Ukweli, refinery29.com, 7 June 2023
  • In fact, precursors to modern bleaching processes didn’t come on the scene until the turn of the 20th century, leaving our foremothers and forefathers plenty of time to get creative with their blonde pursuits.
    — AJ Willingham, CNN, 28 May 2023
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