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# granny

«granny» in Mova's school dictionary: **A friendly, informal word for your grandmother, the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (granny, grannies); also «gran», «grandma», «nan»

### meaning for a pupil

1) A friendly, informal word for your grandmother, the mother of your mum or dad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/granny/#m1)

2) Used in some phrases for an old-fashioned or very careful style, like a «granny knot» or «granny glasses». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/granny/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and everyday life it is a warm family word that tells the reader the speaker is a child or is close to the old lady. Phrases: «Granny's house», «stay with Granny», «granny flat» (a small home for an older relative next to the family house), «granny knot» (a weak, wrong reef knot), «granny smith» (a green apple).

### examples

- Granny bakes the best apple pie in the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/granny/#x1)
- We stay at Granny's house every summer holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/granny/#x2)
- My granny knits me a new scarf every winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/granny/#x3)
- Granny lives in a granny flat at the back of our garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/granny/#x4)
- In the story, Little Red Riding Hood takes a basket to her granny. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/granny/#x5)
- Tie a reef knot, not a granny knot, or it will slip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/granny/#x6)
- I have two grannies, one in Ireland and one in Canada. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/granny/#x7)
- Granny Smith apples are green and sour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/granny/#x8)
- ‘It’s me, Granny, your little Golden-hood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/granny/#x9)

### note

Plural «grannies» (y → ies). Written with a capital letter when used as a name: «Hi, Granny!», but small in «my granny». Informal; in formal writing use «grandmother». Other family words: «gran», «grandma», «nan», «nana». A «granny flat» is not a flat for every old person, it is an extra small home on a family's land.

### In the corpora

- [Granny puts conkers in the corners «for the spiders», and the cartoon squirrel remembers every nut it buries.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/4/)
- [Every Granny Smith tree comes from one seedling found in Australia around 1868 by Maria Ann Smith.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/10/)
- [Granny says a stork on the roof brings luck, and for many Ukrainians the stork stands for home and spring.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa/2/)
- [His granny holds out a bun, «yào bu yào?», and you say yào.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/4-yes-and-no/4/)
- [Granny puts the best piece in your bowl: «duō chī diǎnr!» (eat some more!).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/12-tasty-spicy-im-full/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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