Grandmother

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Grandmother \Grand"moth"er\, n.
     The mother of one's father or mother.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  grandmother
       n : the mother of your father or mother [syn: {grandma}, {granny},
            {grannie}, {gran}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "grandmother":
     beldam, crone, dame, dowager, frump, gammer, grandam, grandma,
     grannam, granny, great-grandmother, hag, old battle-ax, old dame,
     old girl, old granny, old lady, old trot, old wife, old woman,
     trot, war-horse, witch
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  GRANDMOTHER, domestic relations. The mother of one's father or mother. The 
  father's mother is called the paternal grandmother; the mother's mother is 
  the maternal grandmother.