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grandma

[ gran-mah, -maw, grand-, gram-, gram-muh ]

/ ˈgrænˌmɑ, -ˌmɔ, ˈgrænd-, ˈgræm-, ˈgræm mə /

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noun Informal.

grandmother.

Origin of grandma

First recorded in 1865–70; grand- + ma

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH grandma

grammar grandma grandmother

Words nearby grandma

grandiloquence, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandioso, grandkid, grandma, grandma moses, grandmamma, grandmaster, grandmother, grandmother clock

Example sentences from the Web for grandma

Speaking of Grandma, The Wireless Joey is so simple she can install it herself.

New Innovations Let You Watch TV Anywhere You Go | |December 8, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
With wearables on the rise, everyone from dad to grandma has become number obsessed this holiday season.

Nothing Says I Love You Like Data |The Daily Beast |December 8, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Today, in contrast, if Grandma Maude starts one in Maine, Aunty Carol can directly help out from California.

Why Every Home Needs a Drone This Holiday |Charlie Gilbert |December 8, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Presumably with caroling, though presumably not with “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.”

Keep Christmas Commercialized! |P. J. O’Rourke |December 6, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

And, of course, Grandma has something to say about Ferguson.

How to Make It Through Thanksgiving Alive |Lizzie Crocker |November 26, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
And you will stay with us between this time and that, and tell us your nice true stories, won't you, grandma?

Elsie and Her Namesakes |Martha Finley
Then Grandma had taken Cynthia's tall son up-stairs into the large airy guest room.

Green Valley |Katharine Reynolds
Grandma did not call it lunch—they had dinner and supper on the farm.

Sunny Boy in the Country |Ramy Allison White
They were happy all the time, and grandma said they were so good that it was really no trouble at all to have them there.

Dear Santa Claus |Various
If grandma got wind of the situation though, she'd put my pot on properly.

Some Everyday Folk and Dawn |Miles Franklin

British Dictionary definitions for grandma

grandma

grandmama or grandmamma (ˈɡrænməˌmɑː, ˈɡrænd-)

/ (ˈɡrænˌmɑː, ˈɡrænd-, ˈɡræm-) /

noun

informal words for grandmother