stepgrandmother

English

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Etymology

From step- +‎ grandmother.

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.
    • 2009 January 21, Jodi Kantor, “In First Family, a Nation’s Many Faces”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      The president’s elderly stepgrandmother brought him an oxtail fly whisk, a mark of power at home in Kenya.

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