great-grandmother
great-grandmother noun: the mother of one's grandparent.
Noun
great-grandmother (plural great-grandmothers)
- The mother of one's grandparent.
- She’s now a great-grandmother with three sons, a grandson and two great-grandchildren.2017 February 10, Maureen O'Hare, “Great-grandmother cycles 10,000 miles – and she’s not stopping”, in CNN
- Synonyms:
- great-grandma
great-grandmother meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu
great-grandmother in Hindi
- mother of one's grandparent
- परदादी pardādī, परनानी parnānī
great-grandmother in Tamil
- mother of one's grandparent
- கொள்ளுப்பாட்டி koḷḷuppāṭṭi
great-grandmother in Bengali
- mother of one's grandparent
- পরদাদী pordadi
great-grandmother in Telugu
- great-grandmother
- తాతమ్మ tātamma
More languagesFewer languages
- great-grandmother in Tagalog
- lola sa tuhod
- great-grandmother in Malay
- moyang perempuan, moyang, ibu datuk nenek
- great-grandmother in Indonesian
- nenek buyut
- great-grandmother in Vietnamese
- bà cố
- Kashmiri
- بَڈٕ نانؠ baḍụ nān'
Synonyms of great-grandmother
Forms of great-grandmother
| plural | great-grandmothers |
|---|---|
| alternative form | great grandmother |
Origin of great-grandmother
From great- + grandmother.
Questions about great-grandmother
- What does great-grandmother mean?
- Great-grandmother means the mother of one's grandparent.
- What is great-grandmother in Hindi?
- Great-grandmother in Hindi is परदादी (pardādī), परनानी (parnānī). See Great-grandmother meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is great-grandmother?
- Great-grandmother is a noun.
- What is the plural of great-grandmother?
- The plural of great-grandmother is great-grandmothers.
Words near great-grandmother in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: great-grandmother (page history and authors); తాతమ్మ (Telugu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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