Thesaurus:grandmother
English
Noun
Sense: the mother of someone's parent
Synonyms
- baba
- babcia (chiefly in Polish contexts)
- babushka (chiefly in Russian contexts)
- babusya (chiefly in Ukrainian contexts)
- beldame (obsolete)
- bubbe (chiefly in Jewish contexts)
- eldermother (dialectal, archaic)
- eldmother (dialectal, archaic)
- gammy
- gram
- gramma
- grammy
- gran
- grandam
- grandma
- grandma'am (archaic)
- grandmamma
- grandmammy
- grandmaw
- grandmom
- grandmomma
- grandmommy
- grandmother
- grandmum
- grandmumma
- grandmummy
- Grandmummy
- grannam
- granny
- granum (obsolete, regional)
- mamaw
- mamgu (South Wales)
- mammaw
- meemaw
- memaw
- mimi
- mommom
- nan (Britain, slang)
- nana
- Nana
- nanna
- nanny
- nonna (dialectal, especially in Italian contexts)
- oma (chiefly in German contexts)
- sitty (chiefly in Arabic contexts)
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Further reading
- “166. paternity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “grandmother” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.