grandmother
noun
grand·moth·er
ˈgran(d)-ˌmə-t͟hər 
1
: the mother of one's father or mother
2
: a female ancestor
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If additional pendants are recovered, Sophia says their grandmother will decide who receives them next.
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Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 14 Jan. 2026
Instead, his dad and grandmother and aunts and uncles told him that his mom had left Earth and gone to the moon.
—Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 14 Jan. 2026
If not for his grandmother, restaurateur Kevin Kelley might’ve just stuck to law.
—Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2026
This was followed by the sound of bombs dropping, rattling the padlocks on our windows, which my grandmother had bought, during the crisis years, to prevent break-ins.
—Armando Ledezma, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026
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grandmother
noun
grand·moth·er
ˈgran(d)-ˌmət͟h-ər
1
: the mother of one's father or mother
2
: a female ancestor
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