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grandmaternal

grandmaternal adjective: of or relating to a grandmother.

Adjective

grandmaternal (not comparable)

  1. of or relating to a grandmother
    • Though it was a maternal feeling of a kind she hadn't really known with her own children; perhaps, in fact, a grandmaternal feeling, wise, affectionate, forbearing, soft-hearted, but also a little weary, a little retrospective, a little removed...2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 213

Origin of grandmaternal

From grand- + maternal.

Questions about grandmaternal

What does grandmaternal mean?
Grandmaternal means of or relating to a grandmother.
What part of speech is grandmaternal?
Grandmaternal is an adjective.

Words near grandmaternal in the dictionary

  1. grandmas
  2. grandmaster
  3. grandmasters
  4. grandmastership
  5. grandmasterships
  6. grandmaternal
  7. grandmaternity
  8. grandmaw
  9. grandmaws
  10. grandmillennial
  11. grandmillennials

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