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grandmotherhood

grandmotherhood noun: the state of being a grandmother.

Noun

grandmotherhood (uncountable)

  1. The state of being a grandmother.
    • Could I think otherwise of one so deeply merged in grandmotherhood?1860, Thomas De Quincey, Essays on Philosophical Writers and Other Men of Letters
    • The duties of grandmotherhood are surely not alleged as preventing economic independence.1898, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics – A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution, page 21

Origin of grandmotherhood

From grandmother + -hood.

Questions about grandmotherhood

What does grandmotherhood mean?
Grandmotherhood means the state of being a grandmother.
What part of speech is grandmotherhood?
Grandmotherhood is a noun.

Words near grandmotherhood in the dictionary

  1. grandmother rule
  2. grandmother's footsteps
  3. grandmother-in-law
  4. grandmotherfucker
  5. grandmotherfuckers
  6. grandmotherhood
  7. grandmothering
  8. grandmotherish
  9. grandmotherism
  10. grandmotherless
  11. grandmotherliness

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