Female grandparent.
Synonyms
Examples for "grandmother"
Examples for "grandmother"
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My grandmother, by good fortune, was not quite in the same situation.
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She, without any possible doubt, was too young to be a grandmother.
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But the grandmother's been having some health problems... well, since the announcement.
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The incident happened not far from his grandmother's home in Waltham Forest.
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At the age of 4, his grandmother assumed primary responsibility for him.
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Needless to say, grandma was not called for during the coalition negotiations.
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I had no idea what he-ormy grandma-couldpossibly want from me.
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So was grandma yet she worked in the house some she said.
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We found a grandma of an animal and rode into the mountains.
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I had great times as a kid climbing my grandma's dogwood tree.
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My granny used to make a soda bread every day, Mark said.
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In France, we went to great-granny's house in Louviers for Christmas lunch.
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Sarah Jessica Parker dressed as the curtains in your granny's good room.
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An old German granny cried, saying my work touched her so much.
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That's the way your dear departed granny roars, not a full-grown ogre.
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It should be fun at my nana's seventy-fifth birthday party next week.
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And gifts from nana and pop are often, well, less than desirable.
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We went for a walk along the Brandywine River behind Nana's house.
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Georges heard Nana paying the baker and speaking in the curtest way.
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Nana Marie joins Jesse to speak about her work with Heart Kids.
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My great-gran told me to remember there's always someone you can help.
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Basically, they can all be used on telly without frightening your gran.
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Perhaps your gran always gives you aftershave or deodorant for your birthday.
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Come, get your things off; your gran'ma has a treat for you.
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Mum, along with my two aunts, took over my gran's butcher business.
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He carted my gramma off to the preacher on their first date.
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Abra's great-gramma, for instance-shehad to be really getting up there.
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I'm gonna prove your gramma's not the only one with an eagle eye.
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July and August are the rain months during which time the gramma grass grows.
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I've lived with lots of my relatives, mainly my gramma.
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So the beldam took her and carried her to the king's door.
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The old beldam, throwing herself into a chair, fell a blubbering and exclaiming.
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Let us to supper now, and forget those accursed beldam's tales.
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Formerly fate seemed to smile upon me; now she shows herself a scowling capricious beldam.
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That beldam had him back: she had him fast.
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It's actually my middle name, and it was my grand-mother's name.
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The grand-mother told the boy not to go near these bushes.
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You must be a queen too, if you are my great big grand-mother.
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But my grand-mother's disapproval made me see everything as she did.
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He told later that both his mother and his grand-mother had been Germans.
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What would his grandame, if she were alive, say to this pageant?
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Mind you the golden whistle that the grandame keepeth?
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Her grandame's own precious, royal, queenly little darling!
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Thee ought to give thy grandame a chance to eat her bite-don'tthee be a selfish little dear.
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Of a pleased grandame tottering up and down;
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They disclaim all participation in the introduction of it, and cast it all on the shoulders of 'old grandame Great Britain.'
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To the promenade, to church, or market, the good old grandame no longer used her crutch, but leaned on her granddaughter.
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It was a chosen resort of the royal children, to whom the noble, kind, grandame was all that gracious age can be.
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Her daughter, a blooming matron, was there, happy, wealthy, good; yet not apparently a whit more reconciled to life than the aged grandame.
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Old Mrs. Mason, a garrulous, good-hearted grandame, was their only near neighbor, and her visits always left his mother worse rather than better.
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A solitary ray slanting through the window, flitted over the trembling verdure, and smiled on the gloomy wall, like a child on its grandame's knee.
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The last two words were a recollection of his own poem "The Grandame"-
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In his poem "The Grandame" (see Vol.
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"'Twill be time enough when I have the years o' my grandame, I guess, to make me crabbed and gloomsome."
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What would his grandame, if she were alive, say to this pageant?
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Mind you the golden whistle that the grandame keepeth?