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step-grandmother

step-grandmother is the alternative form of stepgrandmother.

Meaning of stepgrandmother

Noun

stepgrandmother (plural stepgrandmothers)

  1. The stepmother of one's father or mother and the wife of one's grandfather, usually a woman that one's grandfather marries after the divorce of one's grandparents or the death of one's grandmother.
  2. The mother of one's stepmother or stepfather.
    • The president’s elderly stepgrandmother brought him an oxtail fly whisk, a mark of power at home in Kenya.2009 January 21, Jodi Kantor, “In First Family, a Nation’s Many Faces”, in New York Times

Forms of step-grandmother

pluralstep-grandmothers

Questions about step-grandmother

What is step-grandmother the alternative form of?
Step-grandmother is the alternative form of stepgrandmother.

Words near step-grandmother in the dictionary

  1. step-free
  2. step-grandchild
  3. step-grandchildren
  4. step-grandfather
  5. step-grandfathers
  6. step-grandmother
  7. step-grandmothers
  8. step-in
  9. step-incest
  10. step-ins
  11. step-ladder

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