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# grandmother

«grandmother» in Mova's school dictionary: **the mother of your mother or of your father** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (grandmother, grandmothers); also grandma, granny, nan, nana

### meaning for a pupil

1) A grandmother is the mother of your mother or of your father. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandmother/#m1)

2) Children often call her Grandma, Granny, Nan or Nana. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandmother/#m2)

3) A great-grandmother is the mother of your grandmother or grandfather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandmother/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

A person in the story who gives, bakes, knits or is older by some years. In everyday life and family: visiting grandparents, Grandparents' Day, stories from long ago. In stories: Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother. Phrases: «my grandmother's house», «great-grandmother», «on my mother's side».

### examples

- Grandmother baked 36 cookies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandmother/#x1)
- She gave 5 dollars to each grandchild. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandmother/#x2)
- My grandmother is 50 years older than me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandmother/#x3)
- Grandmother knits 2 scarves a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandmother/#x4)
- We visit Granny every Sunday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandmother/#x5)
- My grandmother told me stories about when she was a girl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandmother/#x6)
- Little Red Riding Hood took a basket to her grandmother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandmother/#x7)
- My nan lives in Dublin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandmother/#x8)
- That is what grandmother told us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandmother/#x9)

### note

A person only; the clue is in the verb (gives, bakes) or in the age comparison. Trap: «50 years older» is a difference to add to your age, not her age. Every person has two grandmothers: one on the mother's side and one on the father's side.

### In the corpora

- [Orca groups are led by old grandmothers who can live 80 or even 90 years and remember where salmon are in bad years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/235-animal-minds-dolphins-names-orca-grandmothers-and-whale-songs/9/)
- [Think of a grandmother's ring with a sparkling diamond.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/51-gemstones-and-precious-metals/2/)
- [Ruth was not an Israelite, yet she was welcomed and became the great-grandmother of King David.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «grandmother» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grandmother/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.