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单词 great-grandmother
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Definition of great-grandmother in English:

great-grandmother

noun
  • The mother of one's grandmother or grandfather.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They have robbed us of a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
    • She was a wonderful friend, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother and she will be greatly missed.
    • I know my great-grandmother on my mother's side was also a Canadian.
    • Being raised by both his mother in Maryland and his great-grandmother in the rural backwaters of North Carolina has given him, he says, a sense of perspective.
    • My mother speaks of my great-grandmother as if she knew her, even though she died many years before her birth.

Definition of great-grandmother in US English:

great-grandmother

nounɡrātˈɡran(d)ˌməT͟Hərɡreɪtˈɡræn(d)ˌməðər
  • The mother of one's grandmother or grandfather.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I know my great-grandmother on my mother's side was also a Canadian.
    • My mother speaks of my great-grandmother as if she knew her, even though she died many years before her birth.
    • She was a wonderful friend, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother and she will be greatly missed.
    • Being raised by both his mother in Maryland and his great-grandmother in the rural backwaters of North Carolina has given him, he says, a sense of perspective.
    • They have robbed us of a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
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