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babcia

babcia noun: a Polish grandmother.

Noun

babcia (plural babcias)

  1. A Polish grandmother.
    • These cakes are from family recipes, from great-grandmothers and babcias, from kitchens as far apart as Knoxville, Tennessee, and Warsaw, Poland.2001, Whispers from Heaven for the Christmas Spirit, Publications International, Ltd., →ISBN, page 273
    • I visited my babcia Lottie Korosz in Hunlock Gardens and all the relatives on my mother’s side of the family. My babcia Jadwiga Gobolewski died while I was still in Washington, but my grandfather Wiktor greeted me warmly in Glen Lyon.2008, Gene Gomolka, Coal Cracker’s Son, Xlibris, page 191
    Synonyms:
    babusia
  2. A Polish old woman.
    • There are many women in these processions, many of them old babcias with cheeks pink as a young girl’s under their flowered headscarves.1964, Eva Fournier, Poland, page 110
    • THE AGED IN POLAND: GOD AND WORN-OUT BABCIAS1971, Letters to the Alicia Patterson Fund on the Status of the Elderly in Various Societies Around the World, page 1

Examples of babcia in a sentence

  • Women who had babcias considered themselves lucky.2015, Joanna Mishtal, The Politics of Morality: The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland (Polish and...
  • What difference did it make if you were kind to some, if you were beating and stealing others’ mothers and babcias?2019, Rachel DeWoskin, Someday We Will Fly, Viking, →ISBN, page 49:
  • My babcia was hired to attend funerals and weep for those who had few friends or family members.2021, Creating Inclusive Writing Environments in the K-12 Classroom: Reluctance, Resistance, and Strategies that Make a Difference...
  • Babyboomers now are starting to “get it” regarding wisdom dispensed by Babcias.1995, The Polish Studies Newsletter, page 4:

Synonyms of babcia

Forms of babcia

pluralbabcias

Origin of babcia

Borrowed from Polish babcia.

Questions about babcia

What does babcia mean?
Babcia means a Polish grandmother.
How do you use babcia in a sentence?
Women who had babcias considered themselves lucky.
What part of speech is babcia?
Babcia is a noun.
What is the plural of babcia?
The plural of babcia is babcias.

Words near babcia in the dictionary

  1. babbly
  2. Babbs
  3. babby
  4. babby's yed
  5. babchi
  6. babcia
  7. babcias
  8. Babcock
  9. Babcocks
  10. babe
  11. babe in arms

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